modifoo » longevity http://modifoo.com film | technology | life Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:31:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en Here’s to longevity http://modifoo.com/2007/08/29/heres-to-longevity.html http://modifoo.com/2007/08/29/heres-to-longevity.html#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:31:04 +0000 Martin http://modifoo.com/2007/08/29/heres-to-longevity.html One of the reasons why Macs are a good investment, is that they simply last longer. Take for example our now 6 year old Power Mac (which was then middle of the range, the first Mac with a DVD burner). We are still using it as a back-up editing station, and it has just served this purpose without a glitch for the last 2 weeks.

Reading through the minimum requirements of the Hardwaring Scaling feature of the new Flash player, I also noted a difference between Mac and Windows machines:

Macintosh

1 GHz G4 processor or better, 256MB RAM, 16MB video RAM, Mac OS X 10.2 or later

Windows

2.0 GHz Pentium-class processor or better, 512MB of RAM, 32MB video RAM, Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, XP Service Pack 2; Vista

Basically, you need a twice as fast machine, with twice as much RAM and twice as much video RAM (and don’t have to worry about all them service packs).

Next time you consider buying a Dell because of the cheaper price tag, think long term.

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