When it comes to upgradability first of all I understand the Motherboard. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't seen Mac MoBos in stores. If you have, I'll be ready to go to that store and look the MoBo up. I am not the one who succumbs to partisan wars, but I always found the Mac very expensive for what it does. What Apple is very good at is design, that is aesthetics. To get a really powerful Mac one has to spend lots upon lots of money. I can build a very powerful Wintel for around $750-800. Try do it with the Mac. No doubt, the expensive Macs are very good and I'd like to have one. But for that money I can build two Wintels. Surely, the design of the box will be very plain, no mushroom or lady bug, but it'll be very powerful for half of the money. All I am stating is why I cannot afford the Mac, not because I espouse the religion of this or that platform. I like the Mac for its merits, Linux for its merits and Windows for its merits. Would I opt for a platform that met the qualities and specs of all three? Surely, if it existed.
John. On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:31:13 -0400 Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In what ways are Macs not upgradeable? > > I upgraded the processor on my previous Mac (a beige G3 desktop) > three times. I added memory, swapped in new video cards, added a new > > internal hard drives, added FireWire/USB support, a new optical > drive, a new sound card. If I'd wanted to, I could have added a new > > hard drive controller. > > Looking at current machines, the Mac Pro is every bit as upgradeable > > as any WinTel box. The Intel chips Apple has been using are socket- > > compatible, which makes upgrading the processor even easier than > before. It's also much easier to *open* the Mac Pro case than it is > > to open most PC cases (no tools required), and the hard drives are > > even on removable sleds that slide out and click back into place (no > > cables needed). > > The upgrade options for notebooks are limited, period -- but the > MacBook and MacBook Pro have the most easily accessible hard drives > > of any notebook computer. > > Granted iMacs and Mac minis are harder to upgrade (except for > memory), but these are, consumer-level machines, targeted at an > audience that does not typically upgrade their computers. > > Macs also do not depreciate nearly as fast as PCs, which means it's > > often more economical to sell the used machine and buy a new one > rather than upgrading the old one. > > Can we please put the kibosh on these pointless platform wars? > Especially when the arguments are so ill-informed. > > - Darcy > ----- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://secretsociety.typepad.com > Brooklyn, NY > > > > On 11 Oct 2006, at 5:58 PM, John T Sylvanis wrote: > > > Not only that, but when the MAC becomes obsolete you can throw it > away > > because upgrading is a pathetic endeavor at best, if at all > possible. > > Wintel is easily upgradable hardware as well as software wise. Too > bad > > that Apple has not liberalized its platform so that people can take > to > > building standard Mac computers. It happened in the nineties that > they > > did for awhile and when some East Asian cos produced much cheaper > > versions, Apple promptly discontinued the franchises. In this way > a > > great > > number of its partisans are shortchanged, and it is why I > completely > > renounced Apple as a possible working platform. > > > > John. > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
