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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
I'll also add that I suspect the only reason why MacOSX is "faster" is because it's optimized for one set of hardware. There are a million different PC configurations (various Intel cpus, various AMD cpus, etc) that Windows has to run on, but since apple is the only manufacturer of devices that run on MacOS, everything is optimized specifically for certain hardware. It's a very controlled environment...It's the same situation with iOS vs Android. You have the apple devices with the one specific set of hardware, and you have 1000 different android hardware configurations.
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Correct. And after years of observing some real shit that Apple has put out over the years, they are finally putting together some really impressive machines... with incredible screens. I've never seen notebook panels that look better than the panels Apple buys.
Ever since the early 90's, people have been crowing "Apple makes the fastest machines" without any evidence of it. I have a white Core2Duo Macbook under my desk and I never use it because when I do, it takes 20 minutes to boot, and 10 minutes to load any application. Every Apple I used back in those days, even the brand new ones, was slow as fuck. I could put together a PC that would run circles around it any day. And what was this whole "Apple's are better for graphics professionals" propaganda? What a steaming load of bull-honkey that was. Back in the day I wanted to punch anyone in the face that parroted that line to me. I'm glad in the year 2013, people are finally starting to see reality. Faith in humanity is finally starting to return... sort of.
Anyway... the closed environment and tight software / hardware integration is really starting to grow on me.
I think I might pick up one of their machines.