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Originally Posted by blue_pinky
Looking at those 2 machines specced above...
The PC spec is a good gaming machine spec...probably lovely for games, but not so good for music/animation/graphics/design work....standard desktop quality processor, 2 big gaming graphics cards. How much more upgrading will that platform take though? And a PC has to cope with many developers, 3rd party suppliers, so the platform is pushed when it comes to stability and reliability because of the vast array of possible hardware/software configurations.
That Mac spec is a PRO machine so good base spec for music/animation/graphics/design work...workstation quality XEON processor and ECC ram. And that machine is capable of being upgraded MASSIVELY from that spec....perfect for professional design use, and stable because it's a platform with only a few trusted developers who can design and test extensively to ensure reliability with only a few possible hardware configurations. Not primarily aimed at home use.
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Waah?!?!
The Intel Xeon processor in the Mac is one of
these. Woop.
The Intel i5 750 processor in the PC is one of
these.
Massive performance advantage (!) with the Mac there... 2MB less cache, otherwise, no different - great.
Not only that, the LGA775 is an aging platform now, whilst the i5 is very new - far more capable of receiving future upgrades.
Memory - 3GB DDR3 1066 RAM. Compared with 8GB DDR3 1333 RAM. So the RAM speed is slower, and there is 5GB less of it. Another convincing win there... ECC isn't that important at all to be honest. Otherwise, I'm sure everyone would be using it by now.
Can't comment on the hard drive speed, other than in general, the 1TB capacity drives tend to be in a company's best range - so is likely to be faster (better read/write speeds and random access speeds), and there's more space.
Not enough info on the DVD drives to pass judgement, both are read/write drives.
No monitor, in comparison with a high resolution 26" monitor. Clear winner there.
Graphics cards - pretty much any graphics card will be 3D design capable, and the
GT120 certainly won't be any more capable than two
HD5850s for 3D design. No contest whatsoever, be it for gaming, design, watching films or anything else.
There's not enough info on the sound to draw any good conclusions.
Windows 7 vs Mac OSX - personal preference. I personally don't like Macs, but that's an opinion.
Oh, and the biggest point, £260 cheaper than the Mac.
About your 'more upgradeable' point. There's no need to upgrade the PC spec machine - it's far superior than the Mac. The reason why there are few developers in the Mac OSX is because the market isn't really there - people (particularly when it comes to technology) tend to go with the best.
Of course it's easy to make something stable if there are only a handful of developers writing for your system.