[Sussex] PPC or Intel

[Gareth Ablett]

Hi,

I use and support both Intel and g4/g5 macs at work your biggest bonus with
the new Intel ones is the dual core, which has a great improvement on
general desktop apps. As the main applications I use at work is Photoshop
and bbedit, bbedit is faster but Photoshop lags slightly on the Intel
machines this will change when cs3 comes out next year, at which point that
will be a bigger reason to get the Intel machine.

All I can say is if you have the time to wait for the second generation
Intel Macs to come out (then do) as the first line always have bugs that
need ironing out. But really don't get a and old one unless you need to.


Kind regards
Gareth

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Sent: 07 July 2006 11:25
To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Sussex] PPC or Intel

My girlfriend wants an Apple laptop, and in a moment of madness, I  
offered to buy her one.

But she can't decide if she should get one of the older ones with a  
PPC processor, or a newer one with Intel Inside.

Having seen all the Holy Wars when Apple made the switch, I can't  
imagine that asking on an Apple forum would get me terribly far :o) So  
does anybody here have any advice as to how much difference, if any,  
the different CPU arch's make?

Cheers!

Dominic

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