I see. You don't understand though. For Windows Gaming, performance wise, a PC with an Intel Core 2 Duo Quad Core 6600 processor and a single Nvidia 8800GTX card will outperform any Mac that I can configure on this website, and it will cost less, about US$3,610.00 vs US$4,644.00 (both without monitors).
That Gaming performance also translates to Encoding performance, 3D Rendering performance etc. ***I'm being asked, in effect, to pay --US$1,034.00-- extra for the case design and the OS*** Now, sticking with the PC for an extra US$1,034.00 I can throw in the EXTREME Quad Core version the Core2 Duo Quad Core QX6700 and TWO 8800GTX 768MB graphics cards and that runs me up to US$4,470.00 still leaving me with US$174.00 to play around with. And this is from a Boutique Enthusiast PC store, Velocity Micro (www.velocitymicro.com) not even Dell or one of those other mass marketed PC vendors who's prices may be even better. Mac OSX is NOT worth a US$1,034.00 price premium at a decided Performance deficit to me, regardless of how excellent I think it is. I thought for a minute that things had changed and the user could upgrade the Mac hardware with video cards available at retail. Until such time as we have complete configuration options on the Mac it isn't worth using it as a dual boot gaming machine. Having just three graphics card options, the X1900XT,the 7300GT(a Low End graphics card) or the Quadro FX 4500 isn't a huge amount of choice really. The X1900 XT option will probably be worth it for those that game occasionally. As an enthusiast though, for US$4,644 I can get a screaming fast PC that will be future proofed for at least the next two years. I could never understand how the Mac could bill itself as a Consumer - centric, Multimedia - centric platform and not have anything close to a variety or quantity of home user oriented games. Funny enough, if Apple were able to promote the Mac as a gaming platform sales would probably increase phenomenally, but they would also have to relax their grip on the configuration options. They keep choosing to keep the latter option. On 3/19/07, Dave l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > k that link didnt work, just go to apple.com and go into the store, here is > product page with a bit of info > > http://www.apple.com/macpro/graphics.html > > > > Some are fixed or not huge choices but the Mac Pro is a friggin > > BEAST!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
