Okay, here's a head-to-head price comparison between the Dell
Precision 490 and the new Mac Pro.
I had to use a *very* expensive video card in both machines (NVIDIA
Quadro FX 4500 512MB) to get the closest possible match between the
two configurations, but here's the price for both machines:
Mac Pro: $4,228.00
Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
1GB (2 x 512MB)
250GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB, Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI)
1 x SuperDrive
Both Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and AirPort Extreme
Apple Keyboard and Mighty Mouse - U.S. English
Mac OS X - U.S. English
Dell Precision 490: $4,909
Dell Precision Workstation 490 Desktop - 64bit:
Dual Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5150 2.66GHz, 4MB L2,1333
2nd Processor:
Dual Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5150 2.66GHz, 4MB L2,1333
Genuine Windows® XP Professional, x64 Edition with Media
Intel Hyper-Threading:
Hyper-Threading feature preset to ON. Can be disabled/enabled in BIOS.
512MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 4500, Dual DVI or Dual VGA or DVI + VGA
1GB, DDR2 SDRAM FBD Memory, 667MHz, ECC (2 DIMMS)
Hard Drive Configuration:
C1 All SATA drives, Non-RAID, 1 or 2 drive total configuration
Boot Hard Drive:
250GB SATA 3.0Gb/s,7200 RPM NCQ Hard Drive with 8MB DataBurst Cache™
CD-ROM, DVD, and Read-Write Devices:
16X DVD+/-RW w/ Cyberlink PowerDVD™ and Roxio Creator™ Dell Ed
No Floppy Drive
No Monitor Option
USB Entry Quietkey, No Hot Keys
Dell USB 2-Button Mechanical Mouse with Scroll
Sound Card and 1394:
1394a Controller Card
If go with the stock video cards -- NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB on
the Mac and 256MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX on the Dell -- the stock
Mac Pro is $2578 (once you add wireless) and the Dell is $3984.
If I made a mistake and this is a flawed comparison for some reason,
I'll be happy to be corrected, but it sure looks to me like the Mac
Pro is anywhere from $680 to $1400 less expensive than the equivalent
hardware from Dell.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 07 Aug 2006, at 11:04 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
As far as I can tell, it looks like the most comparable Dell is the
Precision 490:
<http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/precn_490?
c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&~section=specs#tabtop>
It doesn't have as many HD bays as the Mac Pro, but it does support
up to 32 GB of memory -- that is, for those with $29,370 to blow on
RAM alone!
Cheers,
- Darcy
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