To: Blue Highway
I just visited the Apple web page and looked at the mighty Mac. $2499 will buy you a quad 2.66GHz processor, 4 gigs of ram, a "superdrive," a 640 GB hard drive, and an NVidea 120s GT video card plus the OSX and ILife.
I just built a PC with a quad 2.66 GHz processor, 8 gigs of ram, a DVDR drive, 2 1 TB hard drives and an ATI 4850 HD video card plus sundry necessary hardware for.....$1000 (all parts bought retail from Newegg).
Hmmm...decisions, decisions...$2500 for a bottom line Mac Pro or $1000 for a PC with more storage, better video card, faster processor, and more ram?
Bring the Mac up to my system's modest capabilities and the price skyrockets to.....$3149. But Macs are not overpriced...nah.
102 posted on
07/01/2009 3:57:36 PM PDT by
Sudetenland
(Without God there is no freedom, for what rights man can give, he can take away.)
To: Sudetenland
Correction: Not faster processor...I overclocked mine to a modest 2.9GHz, but I decided to compare the Mac to mine at native speed.
103 posted on
07/01/2009 4:00:19 PM PDT by
Sudetenland
(Without God there is no freedom, for what rights man can give, he can take away.)
To: Sudetenland
Is your computer’s components equal in quality to Mac’s? Those numbers do not always tell the whole story. And even so it is somewhat unfair to compare a build it yourself to a Mac. Price out equally outfitted Dells or HPs to the Mac.
105 posted on
07/01/2009 4:03:43 PM PDT by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: Sudetenland
Swordmaker will post some lengthy reply to you stating the Mac Pro will be cheaper in the long run considering (you’re gonna love this) the higher resale value of macs. But yeah Apple users can’t deny it is cheaper to build a PC than a Mac. You got 2 1TB drives to the Macs puny 640gb drive. Bwahahaha. Plus the Mac Pro is $1500 more than your PC. At least YOU get it. I wonder why the Apple sheep are so blind as to not see this?
To: Sudetenland
You built a portable?
109 posted on
07/01/2009 4:09:21 PM PDT by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media.)
To: Sudetenland; Blue Highway
I just built a PC with a quad 2.66 GHz processor, 8 gigs of ram, a DVDR drive, 2 1 TB hard drives and an ATI 4850 HD video card plus sundry necessary hardware for.....$1000 (all parts bought retail from Newegg). I assume your homebrew PC has workstation grade Xeon® processors (currently $1019 each from Newegg) with 1066MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM and a 1000 Watt power supply in an aircraft grade, custom engineered aluminum case, like the Mac Pro?
If so, how did you do it for $1000?
186 posted on
07/01/2009 8:14:03 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
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