Mac vs PC - Benchmark & Speed Tests by Popular Mechanics

[Tulkas]

What do you do Duke?

[No-Fear]

Duke hustle's for his money but as long as the computer doesn't take over a minute i could careless. While my computer boots up I am usually doing something else anyways

[DennyCrane]

Personally, I don't shut my computer off. It'll run for a couple weeks at a time. It only restarts for updates. It makes boot/shut down times moot.

[No-Fear]

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Originally Posted by DennyCrane

Personally, I don't shut my computer off. It'll run for a couple weeks at a time. It only restarts for updates. It makes boot/shut down times moot.

I do that with my laptop

[DigitalDD]

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Originally Posted by DennyCrane

I'm not really buying into their "benchmarks". Let's see standardized tests like a 500mb video encoding, PCMark05, 3DMark06, PCVantage, etc.
And frankly, no matter what flavor you prefer, those all-in-one PCs are just silly. Maybe Suzy Homemaker might like one for storing recipes in the kitchen, but they're ALL (Apple and PC) pretty much useless machines.
As far as notebooks go... wtf did they pick Asus? Good company and all, but I'd rather see an HP or a Dell go up against the Apple since that's what your average buyer is owning.

Damn.. you forced me to click on the link to the article. I just had to know if Suzy Homemaker [aka Kim Kommando] wrote the review.

[Dukefrukem]

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Originally Posted by CmdrTulkas

What do you do Duke?

I'm a hardware/electrical engineer; FPGA design using VHDL, hardware troubleshooting and I write diags.

[CoffeeShark]

yeah, that's too many acronyms.