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Aye, all of MadMax's pro-Mac propoganda can be countered with pro-PC propoganda, but this is not a Mac vs. PC thread, technically. The reason I personally despise Macs is because of Microsoft's involvement with them. When they decided to build an expensive, user-friendly, proprietary Personal Computer, they came up with the Mac. It's Microsoft's way of dominating the niche markey, as well as the mass market. Hell, most Mac owners don't even know that Microsoft owns and controls Apple, in the first place. Most Mac owners think they are "breaking away" from the Microsoft giant, when in fact they are putting more money per computer into Gate's deep, deep pockets... Macs account for merely 3% of consumer sales. But they make up more than 85% of the graphics "professional" world. The reason for this is simple, many schools have Macs, and people learn on them faster because of the way they were designed, with the idiot-user in mind. I don't mean to suggest that Mac users are all idiots, merely that they are nearly idiot proof. ALthough every Mac users will say the "dual g-50,000 processor" is faster than WHATEVER, it's just a fable. Both the Pentium and the Athlon beat down the Mac in the workplace, which "coincidentally" has NO Macs in it. The largest graphics company in the Seattle Area here has exactly 5 dual G5 setups, but could only get one running, and the entire rest of their division runs off PC's. So the fallacy of graphics professionals "choosing" Macs is just that, a fallacy... This is because the Mac doesn't interface with the NOS, making them nearly useless from a professional level. Someone mentioned the world's third fastest supercomputer being powered on G5's, but again this is all just speculation, and propoganda. Who would bother bragging about the THIRD fastest, anyways? If so, then the first and second fastest are surely (and by surely I mean, also speculating) AMD Athlon 64-based. Actually, you can see one at the link... Not one of "the world's speculated fastest", but it's a decent article. But, the biggest beef i have with Macs is the price. For the cost of ONE dual G5, I could build nearly ten AMD systems from scratch, network them all together, and beat down any possible render time that a single Mac might pull. So, the RENDER cost is much, much greater on a fruit-based PC, making them obviously not the choice for a professional with any kinds of math skills. Funny thing, but guess who makes the socket and FSB for the dual G5? Advanced Micro Devices, more commonly known as AMD... But, do whatever you like, for our artistic purposes they are just brushes, and our monitors are the canvas...