I know you know this, but I don't think the average Freeper realizes how much Apples blow the PC out of the water. It is ASTONISHING at the level of sphistication these macs reach.
400% more RAM than the top PC boards can handle. TWICE the processing power...up to 4 TB of storage...unbelievable!
ALSO unbelivable is the fact that the top of the line MAC PRO with all the options (except modem) weighed in at an astonishing TWENTY SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!
For the amount of Macs ElRushbo bought, they should have provide concierge service for him
Yikes! I had to go to the Apple store just to see how someone could manage to spend $27k on a Mac. Start by making it superfast for $11,400, and spend from there! I got off easy recently when my wife got her new Mac Pro!
What did you leave out? I got $28,090.90... of course I had to include everything except the kitchen sink to get to that number... including dual 30" Cinema Displays and every software package offered. Maybe you left out one of the displays? Or did you go for capacity rather than speed for the four drives, selecting 1 TB drives rather than 15,000RPM 300MB drives? You actually can go higher... the MacPro will support up to EIGHT of those displays if you really want. Just add three more graphics cards and buy six more displays...
Let's see what a matching dell would cost...
Oh, rats... they won't let me put in anymore than 4GB of RAM in their online configurer. But they are charging $696 for each 2 Gigabytes extra of the 800MHz SDRAM... so 28 More Gigabytes is $9744 that we have to add to match the 32GB of the ultimate MacPro...
Oh, Rats, again... they only can control 3 of the SAS drives compared to the MacPro's 4... Well, if they could, it would be $519 extra... so weill add that, to match.
Upgraded out the wazoo Dell Precision T7400 to match as close as possible the MacPro, also out the wazoo..... $14,765.00
ADD 28 GBytes of SDRAM......................................................................................................................................... 9,744.00
ADD Extra SAS 300GB Hard drive................................................................................................................................. 519.00
ADD Second 30" LCD Monitor..................................................................................................................................... 1,199.00
TOTAL .................................................................................................................................................................... $ 25,472.00
It's well known you don't buy RAM from Apple... get it from a 3rd Party supplier who sells high quality RAM. So let's buy our Mac without memory for $18,400 and get our 32 GBs of SDRAM from PCConnection for a mere $7150 making a total of $25,550.00.
Also, let's buy the SAS drives for our MacPro from Dell... that let's us deduct $280 per drive or $1120 = MacPro.......... $ 24,430.00
Let's buy our memory for the Dell from the same PCConnection source at $7150 to make it more fair = Dell Precision $ 23,633.00
The Dell is just $797 less expensive than the Mac... and that is without all the free software that comes with the Mac. If we were to drop the second monitor from the equation, the difference would only be $297. What do you know. The Mac is competitive with the Dell.
Oh, and the Mac really does have four drives while the Dell can only support three... alas... and I don't think it really can support 32GBs of SDRAM...
You do get what you pay for...
Yikes! I had to go to the Apple store just to see how someone could manage to spend $27k on a Mac. Start by making it superfast for $11,400, and spend from there! I got off easy recently when my wife got her new Mac Pro!
In appearance only, the fact that it's a tower, but similarities to regular PCs stop there. It's a workstation, so you have to compare it to other workstation-class systems.