[MichaelRDanger]

I’m a director of IT for a smallish SE corporation. We build all of our PC’s in house and they cost a fraction of what a Mac would cost. Because we choose exactly what components we use we end up with “very” reliable PC’s.

If you buy crappy computers built with cheap parts you are going to have problems.

[Celtic Conservative]

Oh, now you did it! Injecting facts and logic in a Windows V. Mac flamewar!
How do you sleep at night?!

=^)

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[DesertRhino]

It isn’t just cheap components. It’s the operating system that sucks more. The windows one is far less stable and is more vulnerable than the apple one.
But of course, you are one of the 2% that only use linux and everyone there instantly took to it seamlessly.

[Lagmeister]

Yep the ole Mac line of reasoning: fewer service calls and ease of use. Of course, now they are adding that it's cheaper. Well, finally they're charging less because their software has always been simplistic and less compatible with hardware and software mods/upgrades as a general rule and their rigs always ran fairly hot because they were improperly vented.

A retiring teacher friend wanted me take apart her Mac and destroy the hard drive. I wasn't shocked but I certainly had trouble containing my laughter at its configuration.

By the way, I build my own computers as a hobby. I have a Lian-Li case/an MSI mobo/Intel overclocked processor/16 gigs memory/XFI Soundblaster/two 10 thousand rpm hard drives in Raid 0 running my OS and 3 other internal hard drives/GeForce graphics card/Win 7 64bit.

I would love to give you the cost of a compatible Mac computer, but there aren't any.

Of course - as they say - opinions vary and your experience may be different.

[1L]

>>I’m a director of IT for a smallish SE corporation. We build all of our PC’s in house and they cost a fraction of what a Mac would cost.

I did the same with my law firm until I decided to stop building PCs and just put iMacs on the desks and Mac minis as servers. It worked out fine for me, but I do agree with you: you don’t have to pay 2 grand for a decent office PC. 300-400 was my experience, although I did have to replace an awful lot of hard drives.

[Crusher138]

We build all of our PC’s in house and they cost a fraction of what a Mac would cost.

I call BS.

This sounded wrong. I used to build PCs for a living and either this guy doesn't know what Macs cost or he doesn't know what PC component costs.

On the Mac side I started with a Mac Mini. Intel i5 processor, 8GB Ram, 500MB hard drive. This is the closest Mac comes to a bare bones PC. It does include the OS and a bunch of actually useful software, like Pages, Numbers, iMovie, Photo, etc., etc. It goes for $599.

I went to NewEgg.com and started putting together components. They have nice motherboard/memory/hard drive bundles. I found one that matched the Mac Mini specs for $394. I went for a cheap and fairly ugly case - $59. I went for the second cheapest power supply - $79. A copy of Windows 10 OEM can be had for $99.

I come up with $631 (plus shipping) for the Windows box that I would still have to assemble and install the OS verses the $599 Mac Mini, ready to use out of the box.

I intentionally left off keyboards, monitors and mice since both machines can use any of the above and they are very much a personal preference.

I also left out a copy of Office 365 which has a fairly confusing pricing structure where you appear, in some cases, to only be renting the software for a period of time. No such subscription crap in the Mac world for basic office software.

Add to this the lower cost of use over time for Mac and their far better security and this myth is...BUSTED!