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Once again a connection of math to music.

See the link here. Realplayer audio link at the bottom.

I will not taint my computer with Real.

What?! No pictures?

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I will not taint my computer with Real.

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Indeed - same here.

I don't trust pre made computers either (with the exception of pda's and laptops, as I cannot assemble either of those - heh). I cannot stand how those big companies such as Dell and Compaq (err Compaq's dead now, aren't they? Bought out by HP?) put so much crap on the install and also stock it up with the crappiest motherboards and such. Apple.... I'm not even gonna start...


Yea; build your own PC; it's the only way!!

Try the Real Alternative at http://www.freecodecs.com/

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Apple.... I'm not even gonna start...

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Damn straight, you're not!

Haha - [pmbuko] please don't tell me you're one of THEM...

I am a PC advocate but do you happen to know what hardware is inside a G5 or G4 has? If you do you would not come off with such a brash comment. Do you know what a RISC based 64 bit Power4 power PC chip? The PowerPC G5 can pump through more than 200 in-flight instructions at a time, a whopping 71% more than the 32-bit Pentium 4. We use the slower 4 x Power PC604 chip CPUs on our Aix RS6000 Unix servers that run Oracle with over 60,000 a day transactions. The G5 chip runs circles around that one.

Indeed the G5 is a nice chip, but look at the Athlon 64 FX-51 aka the Sledgehammer - PC World and Macworld combined to do some benchmarks on 64 bit processing applications, and let's just say that the Sledgehammer just put the 'whoopin' on pretty hard. Even the 'old' 32 bit Athlon XP 3200+ Barton beat out the Mac in most cases, losing I believe in only Photoshop... So if you knew the true real-world performance you would make a comment like that...

Just Kidding of course... My comment was only about the software and not being able to customize it to your exact specifications, like you can when you build your own PC. But still the speed numbers speak for themselves.

Here's the 'linky'.

I understand that the G5 architecture is nice, but the Sledgehammer with its integrated front side bus keeping it in the GHz instead of the MHz is just incredible.

[EDIT]The link seems to be down right now, but it should be up in a bit [/EDIT]
[EDIT #2]It is up now - and look on Page 8 and see the title Athlon 64 vs. Apple G5 Systems: Not Even Close (chart)
Apple Power Macs did well on Photoshop, but the 64-bit AMD-based systems won handily on most tests.[/EDIT]