does mac users have any advantage over PC users when it comes to P5? like is P5 SR3/4.1 more stable on Macs? more or less crashes? etc? cause most software and P5 stuff is made for PC....Mac is always at the waaaay back seat.......im actualy still wondering why Mac is still around after all of these.....i dont know anything about a Mac computer and the last (and most advanced) Mac my hands ever touched was in HIGH SCHOOL when I took computer programing with BASIC...you know....those Mac comps with 5 1/4 disks.....thats pretty much the most advanced Mac i ever used.... with PC....you can swap parts....buy parts anywhere....slap em together like GUY FOOD----> open some canned food, put in pot, mix some stuff from last night, and hoohaa! you got LUNCH and if your lucky thats gonna be your DINNER too....so PC is like that...almost....well you cant eat it.....=) but ye....whats the advantage of Mac over PC when it comes to P5 SR3 or 4.1? just curious.

For one thing, the modern Mac rarely, if ever, crashes; if an app craps out, it doesn't bring the whole system down with it. Poser 5 is lightning-fast on my G4 laptop (1.25 GHz), stable as a rock, and looks mighty pretty. And if you want to add a peripheral or a new hard drive, you don't have to spend a week on the phone with some guy in India, hashing out the .exes and other PeeCee esoterica. But they're not for everyone; de gustibus non est disputandum.

We don't get the coolest software when it comes out (Poser, Daz Studio vaporware) but we do get some of the most stable and reliable computers out there. Don't have to worry about viruses or anything like that. I can go to the local computer store and buy just about anything and it will work in my mac. The only thing you really can't just slap in are video cards. My dvd burner is a Cyndine from Office Crack. Mac sees it for what it really is, a Pioneer A05. There really isn't an advantage for poser with a mac. PCs have much higher clock rates, poser needs all the clock cycles it can get to run faster. It's been ported so many times it really need to be rewritten from scratch to do any better in my opinion.

Attached Link: poser5 MAC animation test

***i dont know anything about a Mac computer"*** Yes thats abundantly clear :-) ***"with PC....you can swap parts....buy parts anywhere....slap em together"*** Ahh yes and many of these "splapped together" Machines were largely the cause of the initial Disasterous PC experiences with poser5 that are well documented in this forum :-) ***"but ye....whats the advantage of Mac over PC when it comes to P5 SR3 or 4.1?"*** Well if you consider paying a preorder price of over $300 USD to get the **"blue screen of death"** and the hard drive reformats that poser5 users endured BEFORE CL got the APP some what stabilized, an advantage then I guess You may have a point :-) BUT I paid $89 USD for poser 5 MACOSX upgrade And never have any problems :-)

The bad news: P5 Mac version 1 is extremely slow compared to P5 Win; see Burton's benchmarks in this forum and elsewhere. Maybe the next release of P5 Mac will be better written, despite the chaos that must have occurred during the takeover of CL by E-Frontier. What we're hoping is that they can develop a stable group of remedial programmers who can bring the code up to speed, like the example of Carrara, which runs faster on OS X than on Windows machines. The good news: Win XP, ME, 98 etc. are all inherently unstable compared to OS X, provided the OS X system has been checked for any hardware conflicts, bad kernel extensions and other problems that cause instability in OS X. Nor are there any viruses or worms for OS X yet, although there is one harmless trojan.

As I use P4, I can't add much here... except to clarify that NO Macintosh ever has come with a 5 1/4" disk drive. It sounds like the earlier experience noted may have been with an Apple II.

"Win XP, ME, 98 etc. are all inherently unstable compared to OS X" Mateo, gonna disagree slightly on this, as it is too broad a generalization. Windows 2000+ (inclusive of XP) is equally stable to Unix on any given identical component system, and OSX is Unix. Prettier, cleaner, and, of course, more polite, but still Unix. OS/2 Warp possess the exact same stability. BeOS 5 does as well. They, unfortunately, only seem to be running on my poor little boxes here. "provided the OS X system has been checked for any hardware conflicts, bad kernel extensions and other problems that cause instability in OS X..." Hmmmm.... That's exactly the same thing that causes instability in any computer system. ;) sorry. Had to point it out.

Quote - BeOS 5 does as well. They, unfortunately, only seem to be running on my poor little boxes here.

You'll be able to run it again when Palm OS 6 ships! :)

What! No quotes! What the hell!!! Also the one trojan was never released "in the wild" Here is a quote.... Therefore, to activate this Trojan you have to either receive a Mac-encoded attachment and double-click on it in the Finder, or you have to download a Mac-encoded a file (which is then usually decoded to your desktop) and double-click it in the Finder. End of quote.... If you have this file in your iTunes library or on your iPod, it will play the song, it won't exicute the app, you actually have to double click the file. I'm not too worried.

The "Mp3-Concept" trojan is no threat. The main thing it exposes is that there is no way for it to propagate or transfer over networks, because the resource fork is normally stripped out in any kind of transfer. Most Mac users are aware that you don't convert an mp3 file to mp3.sit, mp3.zip or mp3.hqx in order to transfer it, so such a trojan could only affect the most uninformed newbies, who are always the guinea pigs for any virus/worm/trojan in any platform.