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Hey Darcy, I had to have a look at those articles you mentioned (I'm a sucker for such things). Nothing wrong with posting them, it's all useful information as far as I concerned. [-: 

Naturally I was surprised at the Mac/PC results. Being PC user however, I was more concerned to see the discrepency between the performance of the Athlon and the P4 in AE. 

The price/performance ratio of the Athlon has always been in it's favour, but often, even when optimised for certain software, it can be somewhat lacking when compared to a P4 when optimised. Over at tomshardware.com this was noted in an article on MPEG 4 encoding. (I have an Athlon in my rig BTW). 

Still, a highly affordable dual Athlon rig (2x2000+) will still beat a dual Pentium 4 Xeon rig (2x2200) in most instances. Check here for more:- 

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1606&p=1 <http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1606&p=1> 

Anyway, Mac or PC? If it were me I'd read as many reviews as possible in addition to basing any decision on previous experience with each platform and software already purchased. I for one would be happy to have a Mac but I've invested too much time and money into the PC/Windows platform.  

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