You enjoy being rude, don’t you. It’s really not an attractive debating technique, you know. I could respond point by point, but once you have taken the conversation down that road, I’m gonig to choose the high road and opt out. I’ll remain polite and leave it at that.
Where have I been rude? I have not called you names. Pointing out that you don’t know what you are talking about is self evident when you claim a 4 processor computer is “virtually” the same as a much faster 8 processor computer when comparing pricing is equivalent to comparing the price of a small pickup truck to a Mack 18 wheeler. That means you don’t know what you are talking about. Ignorance is curable.
I could respond point by point, but once you have taken the conversation down that road, I’m gonig to choose the high road and opt out. I’ll remain polite and leave it at that.
All right. I retract the observation that you don't know what you are talking about. My apologies. It was not intended as an insult. Now show me that you do. Respond with your point by point rebuttal. Please.
You can start with how a one year old technology, a single, 2.4 GHz Intel® Core 2 Quad Q6600 "Kentsfield" processor with an 8MB L2 Cache and 1066 MHz FSB, is "virtually" the same as two, cutting edge, 2.8 GHz Intel® XEON™ E5462 "Harpertown," processors with 12MB L2 Cache and 1600 MHz FSB.
Then you might want to explain how a crippled 32 bit home operating system is somehow equivalent to a professional 64 bit OS.
You then might want to explain how an anemic 350 or 540 Watt Inspiron power supply compares favorably to a 970 Watt power supply (have you priced power supplies in that Wattage range?)
How is your example Inspiron a "comparably-equipped PC" when matched against the workstation class Mac Pro?
Schooner, you came on this web claiming you had "no dog in this fight," intending to establish your lack of bias, then you proceeded to make erroneous assertions, posting mis-information such as
"And if you run dual monitors, like I do, you apparently have to buy Apple's proprietary over-priced displays, which I see are 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 times the cost of a comparable size flat panel monitor for a PC."that showed you were ignorant of the Mac computer. You were apparently not aware that Microsoft is the publisher of Office 2008 for Mac and then you called the author of the opinion piece a "liar" and then, later, you essentially extending that liar epithet to me by repeating it after I factually rebutted your claim with sources, showing you the PCs built specifically to compete with the consumer grade iMac in the same market were all more expensive and lower powered than the iMac. Yet you, presented with this evidence, and not responding to the fact, switch the discussion to push the canard that low end, bargain basement PCs are somehow the equivalent of top-of-the-line workstation Macs. This shows you indeed have a dog in this fight... the PC dog.
By the way, that was confirmed in your first post with the "Flame away, Apple fanboys." Don't you think that could be construed as insulting to all Mac users?
When was the last time you actually used a Mac to do any work? Not just poke around the keyboard and move the mouse on the screen but actually use it?