I'm a MAC... and I'm a PC

I love hating on Mac's and Mac users. However what few people seem to be talking about on the PC vs Mac front is that new Macs with intel core duo cpu's and Nvidia or ATI graphics ARE PC's ! Yes Macs ARE PC's.

Look, here is half-life2 running on windows XP booted on an iMac with ATI X1600 graphics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v6knSCXMQM

And here is Windows XP running inside Apple OSX using the new 'parallels' emulator (Parallels on intel Macs runs windows much faster than emulators on G3,G4 and G5 Macs):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI33A76n4Ok


These aren't hacks. The 'bootcamp' software that boots windows on macs will be built into the next version of OSX. At the moment you have to download it from Apple here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

The Parallels emulator can be download here for £40:
http://www.parallels.com/

Tom's Hardware Guide

Want to know the relative performance of all the latest PC hardware?

Then Tom's Hardware Guide should be your first stop. The site has interactive performance charts for CPU's, graphics cards and harddrives.

All charts are aranged so the fastest/best hardware is always at the top. There is a large choice of real world benchmarks that can be used to compare hardware. Just select the benchmark from the dropdown list and the chart is redrawn.