[Asdrubale88]

mine was 1200 euro:

- P4 2.0 Ghz
- 256 mb DDR266 (now 1Gb DDR400)
- 60 Gb Maxtor
- nVidia 440 MX (now 6600 GT)
- DVD-ROM drive
- CD-RW drive

now with 1200 euro i could buy an Athlon64 cpu and others powerful components

or a beautiful mac, of course

[Larsen2k4]

999 Euro:
- Athlon 64 3400+
- 1 GB DDR400
- 200 GB S-ATA Samsung
- Ati Radeon 9800 SE 256 MB
- DVD +/- RW DL

...will there every be a Mac which has the same components for the same price?

[theSketch]

Larsen2k4 you forgot one important thing - software. Software makes your computer great, not hardware. And what can you tell about Windows comparing with Mac OS X?

[auqs10]

Hey guys, don't be so expansive. Each one has the right to chose the type of computer in own needs (some would like fast for gaming but some for main reason - computing numbers or graphics). Of course, the graphic interface should be as friendly as it is possible (without crushes) and for each one of us it should be FAST. I think not only the price and hardware but also the sofware (here meaning in the first place the operating system) should be handy, no matter who's the producer (best could be opensource or ... at least freeware).

[Duckie]

SEPH!!!!
You're needed

[Larsen2k4]

theSketch said:

Larsen2k4 you forgot one important thing - software. Software makes your computer great, not hardware. And what can you tell about Windows comparing with Mac OS X?

What I can tell about comparing? O.O

Hmmm: ANSWER

*joking*

You're right. :cool:

[Duckie]

SEPH!!!!!!!

[raduking]

I think that this discution will lead nowhere...
everybody is free to choose whatever he/she wants to use and of course according to his/her budget...

so let's leave it there

[Asdrubale88]

you're right radu

[jason douglas]

OK, it's amazing how far off-topic this thread got Rendering graphics (like the dock) over an overlay will inevitably black out that region, due to the way overlays are handled. I think you can get around this behavior if using VMR9 instead of overlays, but there isn't a lot of VMR9 support, and the fix has to be done in the app playing video, not the dock.

and fwiw: apple has much greater control over hardware than ms, so its easy for them to write an api like quartz or core, and then say that anybody with a computer more than 2 or 3 years old has to upgrade to run the latest version of osx. ms is much more concerned with backwards compatibility than technological advance (for better or worse) which is probably why they work on api's like gdi+ that don't require 3d hardware, pushing stuff like avalon out into the far future. a look at their history: wimp interface, internet explorer, msn messenger, 64-bit, etc... has always shown that they care less about being *first* than being #1 in market share.

[vampire_2d]

[quote]apple has much greater control over hardware than ms[quote]

I was thinking the same way... It's much easier to code graphical stuff when you may rely on sertain hardware support... Imagine that a Mac user would insert a S3Trio 64UV+ video card into his shining machine instead of burnt Nvidia just to read some important document.... will MacOS shine on that hardware? I bet it won't even boot up ))

So we have just to wait untill MS decides that everyone has proper hardware