Merely stating that those platforms are not designed to accommodate some true processing power should not in any way equate to lessening what they are capable of. You can run a business, I suppose, on a mac. After all, they can handle forms and printing things quite well. However, immediately assuming that because they can work smoothly with graphics-based applications means that they can handle anything else there is... is, I hesitate to inform you, not realistic.
They can do pretty pictures and cute fonts well, or so I am told. So you're told? You have the gall to enter an Apple thread to spout MYTHs and tell us the capabilities of our computers based on HEARSAY? Them is some cojones my friend. Frankly, as demonstrated in my above post, you literally don't know what you're talking about.
Several Reviewers recently attempted to build a Windows PC to match the specs and processing power of the top of the line Apple Mac Pro and they literally COULD NOT DO IT. The components were not yet available anywhere near the price Apple was shipping the completed retail, guaranteed Mac Pro for. . . and some components couldn't be had at any price. It's computational power blew every workstation away. A lot of number crunching can be handed off to the GPUs which can turn in 7 Teraflops. . . Twelve core INTEL XEON PROCESSOR. 7- 20GB per second Thunderbolt ports, USB 3, HDMI, All contained in a virtually silent 6" by 9" chassis. Oh! and made in the USA.
Incidentally, the reviewers tried to find a combination in which a Windows PC with close specs was less expensive than the similarly specced (but always more powerful) Mac Pro and the PC was always more expensive.
My FRient - what is the point of putting up a defense? Those who hate all things Apple (at least 99% of them), the hate is much like the irrational hatred of God that supposedly leads to Atheism.
You could hold their hand, sit down with them, and walk them step-by-step through every fine detail - with irrefutable evidence, and they would absolutely refuse to accept that anything produced by the “Homo-company Apple” (their view) could do anything positive at all, much less be more than competitive, while being far more reliable.
Reminds me so vividly of some of the irrational Ford vs Chevy vs Dodge fights I have witnessed. Yes - I have a preference in the above three brands, but I don’t get rabid, I don’t accept every rumor or crazy negative that floats around about any of the three - I base my views on my experience and history, and don’t try to argue, cuss, or name-call my views into anyone else., and I certainly don’t go trolling those other brand threads on message boards just for spouting the garbage (or even my own experience unless I have a very specific connection to the discussion).