Oh oh, new addition to sig.

It might have a 'kick-ass' clock speed, but it won't be as quick in everyday use as a Mac with a lot less power than that. My 1ghz PC crawls along on WinXP.

Bwahahaha!

PCs are an absolute minefield of compatability issues. BIOS updates, drivers, standards that no-one sticks to. Takes me ages to get even simple stuff working on the PC - things like Bluetooth dongles, IRDA adaptors etc just _work_ when you plug them into a Mac without any hassles.

Which programs are you referring to? - I can run Office (but it's bloated and hard to use) - however I use Appleworks which is entirely compatable with Office. Most professional software has a Mac version available, or at least a Mac equivalent.

It's only games that can be a problem. But I have 3 consoles for that.

It probably does, since the Centrino kicks it's arse and is actually one of the few machines with more poke than a PowerBook :) Better battery life, too. Shame it's intel ;)

(1.3GHz Centrino is rather faster than a P4 - and rather closer in execution to PowerPC than Pentium 4).

Oh, and I have more RAM than you do :P

Richard

Macs = shit :)

A well constructed and put forward argument! Everything i have plugged into my PC works first time, even my bizarre make foreign MP3 USB Pen drive thingy.

Nah they have new Centrino 1.3's at uni are they are WELL slow - and they don't play games well at all :) Which, and lets be honest, is whats important :)

Yeah, but you bought it in a toy shop :-)

He wants a s**te old Nissan, he does.

:-)

--=20 Michael r1100rs(nearly there)|z400|pc50|mk2 16v| 'fot#125 | twa#5 | flo#10

I'm running a 2600 athlon with 768 MB of ram on XP. Seems quite stable...

And would again :)

Actually, I didn't buy it, someone else bought me it :)

And it seems that by the weekend I will.

Greetings Sergey

I may have been trolling slightly, that was a vague reference to a thread a few days ago where some users of the group said how great MS exchange is and others said it was a useless pile of overpriced nonsense.

Secretly, after I posted that message, I had a look at the message headers and worked out that you at least weren't using Outlook express, which is more than I can say for me.

(c:

Douglas

Do they shift? I could just about stand one of these when I get rid of the Ka. God knows what I'd be spending on petrol at 200 miles a week...

To be fair from someone who has a low regard of Apples and much prefers a PC, this is not a fair comparison.

Your 2.6 ghz isn't actually running at that speed as such. It's probably running at 133 mhz with a clock multiplier of 20 times.

It's convenient to boast about, but you could have it run 260 GHz, it's still no quicker as it's only going to sit about for 1999 cycles 100 times quicker on each cycle, instead of just 19 slower cycles, while it waits to find out what to add to the sum (which is limited by the bus - 133 mhz.)

Well, mostly.

Macs = crap

My PC = best cos its mine :)

Thankyou all for coming round to my POV :)

Fact is, and nobody can deny it, MS products have bugs galore and so does most other stuff.

I've also got XP here, to be fair, but everything I have (which is largely the lastest games as simpler stuff doesn't care so much) works without it. My preferred platform is second edition, which is relatively bullet proof.

I can, however, do all sorts of things that XP can't do. For example, I can explore the physical surface of a disk in real time, XP won't let you. XP isn't the Ferrari of the computer world, it's the %user-prejudiced-mass-produced-car, which isn't to say I have a problem with people using it.

LOL, I find an average of 27-30 painful.

Hello Antispam.

a> I've also got XP here, to be fair, but everything I have (which is largely a> the lastest games as simpler stuff doesn't care so much) works without it. a> My preferred platform is second edition, which is relatively bullet proof.

a> I can, however, do all sorts of things that XP can't do.

Create a 8Gb file under 98SE please :)

Sergey

... Read the manual? Doesn't it come in automatic?

If the trip computer on the Audi drops below 37mpg I feel the pain!

Peter

Heaven.

It's a lazy engine, and TBH I vastly prefer a V12 for the sound, but what the heck any engine that burns God's own fuel, has six or more cylinders and a displacement over 3.9 Litres is fine by me.

You need a 620TI sir.

Makes it's maximum 240Nm at 2100rpm, and it's a flat (electronically limited) curve until it drops off just over 6000rpm. Makes for a VERY nice drive !