[QUOTE]Originally posted by Negative
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Huh?

1. PhotoShop 6.0, filters Artistic/Palette Knife, Artistic/Wrap and Sketch/Water paper on an image:
Mac G4 867 MHz, 128 RAM: 52 seconds for a tiff-image, 2 minutes 27 seconds for a jpg.
Now, let's bring in a Packard Bell Pentium IV 1.7 GHZ: 34 seconds for the tiff, 1 minute 37 seconds for the jpg.


2. Office-document, 485.500 words, 2.889.350 characters, Search and Replace action - 39.160 replacements:
Mac: 1 minute, 8 seconds
Packard Bell: 20 seconds

Point 1:
Is it fair comparing a 867MHz processor to a 1.7GHz processor.
Point 2:
Office is by Microsoft, written for PC and then addapted to run on a Mac. Maybe why it does not run as fast on a Mac but then also refer to (Point 1).
Microsoft products are often very unstable. They also cause security problems with Mac. A mac without Microsoft products is only susceptable to a few viruses. Add a few Microsoft products and it becomes increasingly susceptable to a few thousand viruses. I don't know why anyone wants the Mac ver of Windows anyway. MSOffice is usefull but only because gready Bill Gates holds the monopoly and there isn't many products to choose which are equivelent.