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Originally Posted by KnifeMissile
You're not running the same programs on your Mac that you are on your PC, especially when you talk about running "Explorer" and stuff. Because these are not the same application, your comparisons of application stability being attributed to the OS is deeply flawed...
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Or....Explorer, whether it be for Windows or MacOSX is made by Microsoft, yes? The it would follow logic that if it were to perform better on a computer running Mac OSX or Windows XP, it'd run better - despite obviously not being the same program, as linux and DOS are completly different - on the Windows OS. If two computers, one a Mac and one a PC, with comparable clock speeds were to run the same system of tests on Explorer, which do you think would run faster?
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Originally Posted by KnifeMissile
Indeed, and this is not an attack of any kind, you don't appear to be too familiar with how computers work. For instance, when describing your computers, you refered to the processors as being 1 or 2 GB. This clearly makes no sense. You obviously meant GHz and I would normally just take this as a typo (although that, too, is unlikely) but you did so rather consistently, leaving me to believe that you don't really understand what these things are measuring. Furthermore, I get the impression that you think your work computer is "technically" faster than your home machine because it has a higher clock frequency. Is this correct?
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Is there a name for the computer version of a grammar nazi? I am well aware that the processor is measured in hertz, or in this case GHz, where as the RAM or HD would be measured in bytes, or in this case GB. It was a very, very simple mistake, a mistake even computer geniuses could make. Yeesh. While my mistakes lead you to belive that I don't know the first thing about computers, that simply isn't true. I know at least the first 3 things about computers, maybe 4. I belive that, based on estimate and not actual clock tests, the computer at work should be a lot faster than my computer at home.
Home - eMac, second generation, 3+ years old (or 76 in computer years), 1GHz PowerPC G4 processor, 1GB of RAM, 80GB HD, with a 250GB external HD through firewire, and a graphics card (I'll have to go home and check to see which) that was put in aftermarket.
Work - Gateway GT4022, like 2 weeks old, 2.4 GHz AMD Athelon 64 processor, 2 GB RAM, 200GB HD, nVIDIA GeForce 6100 graphics card.
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think should be faster? Without running tests, my comp at home should be a lot slower with comparable tasks than the Gateway at work.
//end threadjack....sorry JustJess