[geeks] Advice on buying a new Mac

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:35:43PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
> In my rudimentary tests, on a 1.66GHz Core Duo with 512MB RAM and  
> hooked to a 26" display, I found it copes fine with 720p HD Video in  
> H.264 format (which takes a LOT of decompressing). I was able to use  
> several iLife Apps at once with a little swapping, again that would  
> go away with more RAM. I also found the Core Graphics and Quartz  
> rendering to be smooth and snappy enough for everyday use, even with  
> multiple Apps running.

On my 2Ghz Core Duo 20" iMac, Parallels with 512M allocated to Windows
XP runs *faster* than XP "natively" with 1G RAM on my 1.7Ghz Pentium-M-based 
Compaq NC6220 laptop that work gave me.

Now, I only use the laptop when I have to fire up the Cisco VoIP softphone
client (and thats only because I dont want to jump through hoops to get a
license key issued for my Parallels session).

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas