Apple surges with new PowerMac G4 with Altivec!!!
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Although I use PCs all the time, even at school, I prefer to use a Mac. PCs are very good and useful. I do not oppose Windows based computers. In fact, I even do computer programming off of DOS and Windows 2000 and NT based computers. However to me, Macs are superior computers despite software limitations.
I have a Powermac G4 running a 400MHz processor. It absolutely rules. Along with a T3 connection, 256MB of RAM, and a 4xDVD drive (24xCD-ROM) I have all I need. This complements the 1MB backside L2 cache at 200MHz, an ATI-Rage Pro video card with 16MB video RAM, and 13 GB ATA drive. Currently, I am an MIT student and just purchased the G4 desktop with Velocity Engine™ and supercomputing power.
Let me tell you something though. Buy a new G4 with a 27GB hard drive with up to 1.5GMB of SDRAM, a 6xDVD-RAM drive with DVD card, two ATI Rage 3D graphics card with 32MB of video memory, a ZIP drive, dual USB ports, Firewire, 10/100 BaseT Ethernet, 56K internal modem, and a 500MHz G4 processer* all under $3600, you won't desire anything else.
*Note: The new 500MHz G4 processer runs 3.94 times faster than the fastest 600-MHz Pentium III based on BYTEmark integer index processor scores and the Signal Processing Library Performance specs published on Intel's own web site.
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