Apple Conputers

mrochester

Lum wrote: »

With the possible exception of Firewire, which most folk never use, Those are standard on pretty much every PC.

Oh, apart from the mini displayport because that then needs an adaptor to use with every non-apple monitor ever made.

Personally if I was going to spend money on a premium system, I'd go for something like this:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-093-OP

Yes the case looks a bit gash and it only has 6 cores, but most apps can't even take advantage of 3 cores yet, so it's better to get that one where they run at 4.2GHz

Combine that with a nice shiny 27" Hazro monitor like this one as that is the part you will actually be looking at and you're good to go.

Except that's completely overkill for about 95% of the population! I suspect most people go for something cheaper, and go for a laptop or tablet at that.

sam959

What about thunderbolt can you get that on pc i know its not on Mac pro but is on Imac

sam959

That PC looks a beast it is nice!!

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Lum wrote: »

With the possible exception of Firewire, which most folk never use, Those are standard on pretty much every PC.

Don't seem to see USB 3.0 support, which is normal on mid-range PCs.

Lum

mrochester wrote: »

Except that's completely overkill for about 95% of the population! I suspect most people go for something cheaper, and go for a laptop or tablet at that.

So is a 12 core mac pro, being suggested by the person I was responding to.

This thread has gone way off topic as the OPs questions were answered on the first page.


Also in response to the Thunderbolt question. Sony released a laptop with it on, but so far since it's such a new technology, most PCs aren't yet shipping with it.

sam959

I know its overkill but its fun! You would not need to upgrade for 20 years LOL!

Lum

anewhope wrote: »

Don't seem to see USB 3.0 support, which is normal on mid-range PCs.

If you mean on the PCSpecialist PC I posted, the motherboars is an Asus P9X79 WS

Asus wrote:

USB Ports
ASMedia® USB 3.0 controller :
4 x USB 3.0 port(s) (2 at back panel, blue, 2 at mid-board)
Intel® X79 chipset :
13 x USB 2.0 port(s) (8 at back panel, black, 5 at mid-board)

If you mean the OCUK one I linked. That has a Gigabyte X79-UD3 motherboard that also provides 4 USB3 ports.

The mid board connectors will be extended to the front panel.

[Deleted User]

Lum wrote: »

If you mean on the PCSpecialist PC I posted, the motherboars is an Asus P9X79 WS


If you mean the OCUK one I linked. That has a Gigabyte X79-UD3 motherboard that also provides 4 USB3 ports.

The mid board connectors will be extended to the front panel.

On the Mac Pro I meant

Lum

anewhope wrote: »

On the Mac Pro I meant

To be fair, Apple push Firewire (and I'm guessing now Thunderbolt) as their high speed interface of choice, leaving USB2 for keyboards, thumb drives, cheap nasty webcams and other tat.

It is odd that although USB is an Intel thing, Intel have yet to ship a motherboard chipset with onboard USB3.

Lum

sam959 wrote: »

The thing is a PC may be the same internally now as a MAC but a PC gets so bogged down with anti virus software and virus and mailware it slows down after a year. Were as a mac will be running the same speed after 5 years!

I addressed this one in the first post. There are viruses and malware for Macs and you should expect it to be a growing market as Macs become more and more popular. Mac users really ought to start thinking about installing security software.

There's also a simple way to avoid your PC being slowed down by your AV software, simply don't install Norton or McAfee, go for something like Microsoft Security Essentials or eSet NOD32.