[QUOTE="freshfighter83"]I already now about the whole Mac x86 crap. I have a 20" iMac with 2gigahertz Core Duo, there is a reason that Macs are still used for high end professional video,sound and picture editing. When it comes to price (yes there are way more expensive for what you get) but most business's don't care about that, they either rent or buy (tax deductable) A couple of grand is neither here nor there, I am currently helping build a recording studio (it is a business) and the owner/Head sound engineer wants a Mac. One of the main reasons is that it is all built with proprietary parts, meaing this sound card is not gonna have issues with this motherboard and so-on.
F-Minus
You see, this is the stupidity of people. He want's a MAC because he is affraid of hardware conflicts. I however understand his decision as said, Mac OS X isn't legaly available for the PC market, thus the audio tools would be of no use for him on a PC. However the hardware conflict he's scared of is just a myth. I haven't had a hardware conflict problem in my PCs since 1990, now we have decent standards, only drivers may botcher up, bur really rarely,
However people should really stop the crap how Mac still outperforms a normal PC nowdays. As mentioned above, the most powerful Mac PRO is a dual CPU system with 16GB ram support. The PC market offers 50% more power as the most powerful Mac at the moment of cheaper prices. So the answer lies on the hand, even with software optimisations on Mac OS X, for example Adobe Photoshop will run better and faster ona a Quad CPU PC as opposed to a Dual CPU Mac Pro machine - it's a no brainer.
The famous days of the Mac are over. It's an x86 machine and the top of the line offering isn't really top of the line. QuadroFX 512MB wheres the 1GB or 1.5GB version? Actually if I remember correctly they're offering QuaddroFX 4500, which is the lowest possible QuadroFX card available. Wheres the ATI FireGL? Does it support SLI?
And it's as you said, a company wont really bother if they overpay the Mac, sadly they wont even go into comparing prices vs. performance, and this is sad and macs last breaths. I work for a design studio, and we had macs in the past, but we gladly exchanged them for PC. Price to performance ratio clearly showed that we wont loose much if anything if we run our applications on the PC. Now let me tell you, even in the old days, the performance boost you got when you had a PowerMac compred to a x86 platform was really not that visible or vital if you had pretty much on par hardware in both. Tho the PPC had some nice stuff it's all gone now.
It's all about application compatibility now, and I think (i'm not on the fly on this) the sound deparment is the only thing they got monopoly still on. As said above, a PC can easily outperform the most powerful Mac in Adobe applications - not that it's needed tho.
[QUOTE="freshfighter83"]I already now about the whole Mac x86 crap. I have a 20" iMac with 2gigahertz Core Duo, there is a reason that Macs are still used for high end professional video,sound and picture editing. When it comes to price (yes there are way more expensive for what you get) but most business's don't care about that, they either rent or buy (tax deductable) A couple of grand is neither here nor there, I am currently helping build a recording studio (it is a business) and the owner/Head sound engineer wants a Mac. One of the main reasons is that it is all built with proprietary parts, meaing this sound card is not gonna have issues with this motherboard and so-on.
F-Minus
You see, this is the stupidity of people. He want's a MAC because he is affraid of hardware conflicts. I however understand his decision as said, Mac OS X isn't legaly available for the PC market, thus the audio tools would be of no use for him on a PC. However the hardware conflict he's scared of is just a myth. I haven't had a hardware conflict problem in my PCs since 1990, now we have decent standards, only drivers may botcher up, bur really rarely,
However people should really stop the crap how Mac still outperforms a normal PC nowdays. As mentioned above, the most powerful Mac PRO is a dual CPU system with 16GB ram support. The PC market offers 50% more power as the most powerful Mac at the moment of cheaper prices. So the answer lies on the hand, even with software optimisations on Mac OS X, for example Adobe Photoshop will run better and faster ona a Quad CPU PC as opposed to a Dual CPU Mac Pro machine - it's a no brainer.
The famous days of the Mac are over. It's an x86 machine and the top of the line offering isn't really top of the line. QuadroFX 512MB wheres the 1GB or 1.5GB version? Actually if I remember correctly they're offering QuaddroFX 4500, which is the lowest possible QuadroFX card available. Wheres the ATI FireGL? Does it support SLI?
And it's as you said, a company wont really bother if they overpay the Mac, sadly they wont even go into comparing prices vs. performance, and this is sad and macs last breaths. I work for a design studio, and we had macs in the past, but we gladly exchanged them for PC. Price to performance ratio clearly showed that we wont loose much if anything if we run our applications on the PC. Now let me tell you, even in the old days, the performance boost you got when you had a PowerMac compred to a x86 platform was really not that visible or vital if you had pretty much on par hardware in both. Tho the PPC had some nice stuff it's all gone now.
It's all about application compatibility now, and I think (i'm not on the fly on this) the sound deparment is the only thing they got monopoly still on. As said above, a PC can easily outperform the most powerful Mac in Adobe applications - not that it's needed tho.
I agree totally, the old age myth that Macs are more reliable and great for DTP (desktop publishing) and graphics are no longer true. It may have been that way 10 years ago, but not today. Out company used to use Macs and Quark Express, now it's all PCs they are much cheaper both in initial cost and also to upgrade. Macs have really lost its edge and for the price/performance you cannot beat a PC. BTW, Macs do crash and Macs have viruses as well. 
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