custom dragster that "everyman" can make. The problem being that relatively few people are capable of building a quality dragster. The rest buy pre-built on the market.
The only exceptions would be high end custom music or graphics software that require an additional wrap-around API to function.
Huh?
PC's crash because people are too stupid to defrag
You do know that disk fragmentation rarely has anything to do with a computer crash, don't you?
egomaniacal, clunky, proprietary sludge
Egomaniacal, yes. It often takes ego to achieve excellence. Clunky? Sorry, they're pretty fast and designed better than any PC on the market. Proprietary? Depends on what you're talking about. Can I upgrade my RAM, hard drive, graphics, etc., without having to buy from Apple? Can I plug in any USB or Firewire device? Definitely.
but is that worth 4 times the cost because
You haven't priced Macs lately, have you?
I said can make. A person of average intelligence can build a computer.
A "Hugh?" back at you. There are some very high end software programs in graphics and music that MAC's run the best because they are designed to do so. All of the other published pap about MAC's being faster is hogwash. In fact, now that the average user can O/C their front side bus on a PC with little effort (check any motherboard manual) the 3.3gig barrier is a thing of the past. MAC's aren't merely old tech, they are dead tech.
Crashing is more than blue-screens. Do a bunch of new program installs and uninstalls without a cleanup and defrag and see if you don't get some lockups, primarily if you run games.
Furthermore, why did you chop off my quote and merely suggest that I was pointing at defragging only?
"Egomaniacal, yes. It often takes ego to achieve excellence. Clunky? Sorry, they're pretty fast and designed better than any PC on the market. Proprietary?"
The above is laughable. But then again, MAC types like their shoes Birkenstock and their online experiences described as "computerliciousness."
MAC's aren't proprietary? To coin a phrase, "It's the software stupid."
I never said you couldn't upgrade a MAC (that is after you pay off the second mortgage you took out to buy the initial computer).
MAC's are about 4 times the cost to get equal value.
(Actually, you can't buy equal value because MAC doesn't even make a rig equal to the best PC that can be made by ordering parts right out of the book.)