Come on, are the Macs really that underpowered? Well, I would have to agree to a certain extent that they seem sort of weak in the performance realm of things.

No this post isn’t FUD spreading hateful filth however about the two hours I spent messing with the Macs in CompUSA looking for a laptop to joing my computer army.

Disclaimer: I own a Mac (G3 384MB of RAM Blueberry iMac) so my opinion isn’t based on not knowing about Macs.

I wanted to know that if I bought a Mac I could do most my work (HTML, Word Processing, etc) on a Mac and do it “as fast” as I could on my current PC (That I plan on making a webserver once I get my laptop). So I walked up to about 5 different iBooks and Powerbooks and proceeded to open Safari, iChat, Word, TextEditor and browse a few webpages. Most the Powerbooks handled it fine except they were huge (I’m talking Pizza box size) and the keyboard was wide. Also trying to use the trackpad none of them (iBook and Powerbook alike) really detected my finger unless I pushed down really hard. [Read the rest]