tzedek said:
You have no clue, do you?
AMDs are a perfect balance between price and performance. They excel in gaming and some multimedia applications. Intel’s excel in things like encoding media and compression. AMD will always win in cases where money is a deciding factor. Actually, given unlimited amount of money, I’d still choose AMD over Intel, for almost everything. We’ve even taken to replacing our Xeon based server at work, with Opterons, upon the request of myself and a co-worker.
VenomHowell said:
And, well, if you like multimedia/graphics editing, Macs are the way to go for you, my friend.
I agree, but only to an extent. The RISC architecture is amazing, I’ve been thoroughly impressed from my experiences with Sun workstations and Sparc servers. I do a lot of graphic design (it’s a hobby of mine) and music production, recording and editing and I’ve never felt limited with the x86 architecture. I’ve always hated Mac, at least until the release of osX; I’m purchasing a 12” 1.5GHz Power Book for my girlfriend and I this Christmas, but It’ll mostly be a toy. I love the idea of a BSD based os, with such duality as osX has.
VenomHowell said:
It all depends on interests, though currently, overall, the AMD Athlon 64s are the perfect balance between functionality and price right now. the 64 3500+ is affordable and one of the best processors out there.
Any performance gains you’re seeing with the 64bit cpu is solely based on their high clock and bus speeds. Even if you’re running a 64bit OS(XP is available in a 64bit version), hardly any applications, and even fewer games are written to utilize a 64 bit architecture. You’d be better off, at least for now and the near future, saving the money by getting a comparable 32bit cpu.