> This is where you are wrong. A decent PC (1.7GHz i.e.) is gonna run you $2000 > easy. A G4/733 is $1699. A PS2 is $299. That is exactly even. Not 2x what > a > PC would cost.
Kyle, you say you work on PC's but man, #1 anyone who wants a decent PC won't be buying a 1.7ghz pentium 4. :) A GREAT compatible PC system: <http://www.pcnut.com/specials.html> Their stuff rocks, one of my best friends who does server installations for monster.com turned me onto them. A 1.33ghz athlon, DDR memory, geforcepro2GTS (much faster than a 2mx), soundblaster, 52x CD, custom built, tested and burned in. Fantastic, stable computer. Costs $999. That's a $700 price difference, and for 90% of a users day it's going to CREAM a 733mhz G4, especially when it doesn't even have an L3 cache... So to even get comparable you'd want to compare it to an 867mhz g4 (even apple says now that a g4 at the same clock speed is up to 30% faster than the same clocked pentium3, and the athlons are even faster). At $2499, that is a $1500 price difference. Something ain't right there. And if you start talking dual processors, it gets even bleaker. Apple is overcharging on their towers and imacs, to an amazing degree. > I have an IT friend at the North Face (he was a PC only guy) and > he just switched to Mac when he saw the TiBooks and compared them to the top > end > Sony VAIO laptop. He switched because the Mac had interested him for a while, > and it was more economical! He would have spent $3700 on the VAIO that he > wanted. Apple has done a great job of getting the prices down, and I feel > that > even Mac users are having a time actually realizing this. The new iBooks are > just over $1000. That is REALLY cheap for a laptop. What was true yesterday > isn't true today. You aren't looking at the bigger picture. Almost EVERYONE says that the current powerbooks are competitive, and the ibooks are awesome. I think the ibook just wont laptop of the year- heck, even their airport solution is decently priced, and their displays are the best that exist for the money and they're competitive. But a lot of their hardware is ovepriced, to the point of absurdity. Apple knows what they're doing though- in the educational market and high end laptop market, the majority of them need mobility, and often don't have a huge investment in software. The CEO of my biggest client literally switches back and forth between pc's and macs every year- he just gets the apporopriate version of outlook and he's set. But with the towers, they're often media people, with thousands of dollars in installed hardware and peripherals, and apple is milking them. Badly. I say give apple kudos where they are excelling (the ibook) but don't kiss their ass when they're asking you to bend over. :) -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
