AT Mac Section: Taking Requests

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• Docpsycho - Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - link

  Yes, (reply to a post on here) there are mac side equivs for web page building adobe' go live, macromedia dreamweaver (i use it)
  for page development pagemaker, and it replacements, and quark, best on the planet, my opinion, and shhhh. MS uses it for thier publication dept!

• Docpsycho - Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - link

  Create a list of what works on a mac pci card list. A few moons agoI slapped a siig usb card in a old pci based mac an the apple drivers worked just fine.

• MacDuff - Friday, July 16, 2004 - link

  Anand, as you develop the Mac presence on your site, here are a couple of URLs that might be of interest:
  
  http://xlr8yourmac.com/
  (great for upgrade info)
  
  http://www.macspeedzone.com/
  (tests)
  
  http://www.barefeats.com/
  (this is a great site, and has several tests between Macs and PCs)
  
  http://www.xvsxp.com/
  (this site compares OS X and Win XP. QUITE thorough!)
  
  

• T Money - Thursday, July 15, 2004 - link

  Don't know if you're still checking this section, but here's a product I just came across that I'd love to see information on how well it performs, and what it does to air flow etc:
  
  http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Catego...

• sid - Wednesday, July 14, 2004 - link

  dear anand
  i just wanted to ask when is your apple mac article coming
  cheers
  sid

• gimper48 - Wednesday, July 7, 2004 - link

  How about an apples to apples pc to mac comparison complete with benchmarks and graphics. Everyone says mac does graphics better however if you placed comparative hardware in a pc and loaded it with the right software I am not sure that is correct. So outfit a pc with the same hardware and comparable software and benchmark it.

• Mel Gross - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 - link

  Something that no one has mentioned here is compilers.
  
  With all the controversy about how cpu test are done, as well as actual work done by the machine as a whole (throughput, etc.), I believe that what we need, most of all, as early on as possible, is an article, or several, about how the various compilers affect performance.
  
  There are several for x86 chips, some of which are used to write most programs, as well as at least one by Intel which was written mostly to show off the performance of it's chips.
  
  How does that compare with the various compilers available for the Mac. Specifically, these days, for the G5. Is IBM's highly optimised compiler being used on the Mac?
  
  Questions like those might help to clear up the questions and accusations thrown around about the results of these tests.
  
  Congrats. about your graduation. I know how you feel about Vinny, because that's how I felt about my wife when I first met her (we are both single children). That was 23 years ago, and still going strong.

• euphras - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  Hi Anand,
  
  a comparison of the old Apple displays (acrylic casing) vs the new ones (aluminium) and third party displays would be helpful.
  
  Pat

• Alex - Monday, July 5, 2004 - link

  Hi Anand,
  
  as DarylF2 I think that gaming is not a focus for most Mac users. While content production and software development is. So would a Final Cut/Softimage/Photoshop user benefit form a GeForce 6800 vs. a Radeon 9600/9800?
  
  Most interesting would be (for me at least) in depth discussion of OS X specific "issues" like e.g. Core Image (is the image quality enough for pro use?) Cocoa (how does it stack up against MFC/QT/whatever ?)
  
  Personally I don't care about how e.g. Premiere performs on a G5 in comparison to a Opteron, but i am interested on how Final Cut Pro performs (speed, feature and workflow(!) wise) compared to Premiere or Omni Graffle vs. Visio or Mail vs. Outlook...
  
  thanks

• cbum - Thursday, July 1, 2004 - link

  Anand,
  your take on Firewire 400/800/USB2 performance for some common HDs, aswell as an analysis of competing FW chipsets, Bridgechips & drivers would be very wellcome.