But Macs Are Slower, Right?

[Mac Reporter]

LinuxInsider reports:
By Paul Murphy
LinuxInsider
09/30/04 6:00 AM PT
Unfortunately, all three of these aspects of the performance debate lead to largely unresolveable arguments about productivity, conspiracy theories about compiler de-optimization, and the delusory discovery that the Mac OS X advantage can reasonably be considered infinite on Unix or multimedia applications where the PC simply doesn't play.

About a month ago, I compared the cost for Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple desktop, server and laptop products to their nearest Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) Latest News about Dell Computer equivalents (see Macs Are More Expensive, Right?) and discovered that Macs generally cost less than comparable PC products.

That was a bit of surprise, but the truly astonishing thing that came out of the comparison was that Dell's product line extends marginally below Apple's at the low end, but has nothing to stack up against Apple's 17-inch Powerbook, X-Serve/X-RAID combination, or Cinema displays at the high end.
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