Mac book pro or windows..please help me.....

Question

Ok so I have a mac mini….i wanna get a mac book pro…im gonna get the 7200 rpm drive..2gb ram.everything good with it as you vcan probably terll money is not an issue…but I c that the mac book pro only has a 2.16ghz processor…..now ive looked at windows computers and they have like over 4ghz… would a windows be faster……..
Any help is apreciated

Answer 1

Ahh, it all depends on what you're doing. What is it that you want to do? It's an important consideration when buying a computer. This is my (rough) understanding of Windows-compatible processors (gleaned from my PC using friends).
AMD processors are like a race car, they go really fast, but try taking all your shopping home in them (ie. great for single processor intensive tasks, but fall down on multi-tasking.)
Intel processors are a people carrier, their handling ain't so snappy (ie. great for multi-tasking but their MHz just don't go as far when you really push them to do something hard like top-end gaming, graphics or video.)
These are generalisations, and silly analogies. Bear this in mind. If you want to know more, you need to learn about processor queues, pipeline stages and such - I know the slightest smallest teeniest bit about that, but you can google it yourself if you wanna know that badly.
The top spec laptop is always slower than the top spec desktop. If your 4GHz system is a PC desktop (which I'm assuming, I've never heard of a 4GHz laptop) then of course it will be faster (although there are other things to take into account, like frontside bus speed, memory bus speed, L2 cache, single/dual processor which are also very important). To be honest though, if you don't understand this stuff, then why do you need a very fast computer?
If you're doing games you're gonna having to learn about this (and I'd definitely recommend a top-spec Windows desktop machine).
If you just want a computer to some word processing, e-mails, videos and photos then get the mac - it's way more compatible (can run OS X and XP) and a lot more pretty, and a lot easier to use
If you're involved in creativity, again, I'd recommend the Mac - it's just the done thing and the laptop'll have plenty of poke for nearly anything (except maybe heavy-duty HD video editing).
Oh yeah I agree with the last guy as well, Windows does end up running slow as sh*t after a year tops. Basically it requires an annual system reinstall if you want any sort of performance out of it
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