I find it ironic and odd that if you line up all the macs in the house that I use by size, the reverse is said for their processing speed. For example, The mac mini is the fastest machine with it’s dual-core intel processor, but its sole job is just being a media center hooked up to the TV. My macbook air is the machine I primarily use, and it’s also a core2-duo intel, just a 1.6ghz processor; it’s main problem isn’t the processor, or the memory, it’s the video card that slows it down. Then there is my big behemoth, my G5 Powermac, which by all instances is a huge machine, and if it weren’t for the aluminum case I’m sure it would take flight when all the fans spool up inside of it. It is my favorite machine, simply because it’s just pretty, unfortunately that comes at a price. It is the slowest machine in the house now. It would run much more smoothly if I upgraded the video card in it, but mac video cards are outrageous, and the last one I put in it (was a rather nice PC-card that had a flashed rom to run on os-x) glitched terribly. I will suffice to say that I am updating my blog from the big behemoth though; it always needs a little love.
That was my random realization for the day.
Oh, and yes I know Billy’s unibody macbook is the fastest machine in the house, but I was making a list of the machines ‘I’ use. So screw your heavy ass unibody macbook with it’s odd black hinge cover. =)
