Blinded by Pride
Posted on Tuesday, March 25th, 2003 at 21:00.
Am I the only Mac user who openly admits that x86 processors deliver greater performance for significantly fewer dollars? Adobe’s claim that “the PC consistently outperformed the Macintosh machine, at an impressive rate,” is not libel. Adobe’s applications function exactly the same on both platforms and deliver faster results when run on the latest x86 hardware compared to the latest Apple hardware. Instead of responding with a silly press release ignoring the truth, Apple should resolve its processor performance issues.
I certainly did not switch to the Mac for the performance gains. Regardless, the performance issues are not noticeable until I try to render in Carrara. I still believe that Apple hardware and Mac OS X are a superior combination for running Adobe applications because my PowerMac G4 just works. I cannot even recall the last technical glitch or quirk I encountered. Not true for the Windows world.
