All this about macs being expensive is complete BS. I'd love to find a 12" laptop that can run Premier, Photoshop, Logic Pro 7, iTunes, Azureus, Mail, After Effects at the same time for under £1000.
You simply cant. I've never seen a geniuenly fast windows laptop without going into the IBM £2000+ series.
Show me a decent looking, ultra thin, ultra light but still very powerful 17" laptop for £1700. or perhaps a fully featured media centre style 20" desktop PC with an out-of-the-box 64bit CPU and compatible OS to match in a casing less than 2" thick for under £1000.
The way I see it, official Shuttle PC's cost the same as a Mac mini. An Alienware desktop costs the same as a PowerMac. There are no laptops that compare (speed wise, aesthetics and with the same level of portability) to the PowerBook, but are priced cheaper than Sony's laptops.
I'm all for windows. I use them an awful lot for gaming, I'm slowly building up a little gaming rig. nowt special. 3ghz CPU, Radeon 9800, maybe 1gb of RAM. just enough to run Lost Cost and whatever games come out that run that HD lighting thing. that seems to be the future. Dual boot between 98 and 2000.
The best OS I've seen is the developer x86 PowerMac my local PC shop have. It can run Windows, OSX x86 and OSX PPC (with Rosetta, PPC emulator), PPC or x86 Linux, 64 bit, 32 bit. extremely versatile. Technically speaking, if running any OS at full speed is anything to go by, its the best OS ever.
I HIGHLY doubt that Windows Vista will be even close to that restricting as far as system requirements. At first it was thought that it would be a 64bit only OS, but now they even have a 32bit version, meaning they are obviously thinking about people who have 1.0GHz processors in addition, so the rumor that it will need up to 3GHz is 1 I highly doubt. As far as hard drive space goes, another thing I highly doubt about Windows Vista. No matter how hard Microsoft tries, I'm pretty strong to believe that they will never make Windows past 10GB big, it’s an operating system, not a game or an application. Once you have everything you need, everything else just turns into add-ons that can be taken off. On that note, the 1GB of memory thing, WindowsXP works on less then 256MB, so the chances of Microsoft jumping up to 1GB required, is just something I don’t see happening, especially when there is no logical reason why an OS would need so much ram.
Basically what we are looking at with Windows Vista.. is an operating system being designed from scratch, not the next generation in computer system requirements? I strongly believe that if Microsoft has any common sense, they will not make that large of a jump, because business computers haven’t even reached the average system requirements that most of us here have already.
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