On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: >> You can get a better spec on a new Windows machine for the same or >> even less money than a Mac Refurb. If you don't need OS X, skip the >> Macbooks and iMac's. The only Mac's which are competitive in terms of >> bang/buck at the moment are the Mac Pro's and the top-end MacBook >> Pro's, the consumer line is currently seriously overpriced, enough >> that even the Refurbs are questionable as deals (Refurb MacBook Pro's >> with similar specs to my current HP HDX16 are priced at the same price >> as what I payed for the HP new last year, for what a Core 2 Mini with >> 4GB and a 500GB drive costs I can get a Dell with an i5, 6GB RAM and a >> 1TB drive). Apple's currently at the high point in its pricing cycle >> vs comparable PC hardware. > > "Better spec" maybe ... but most of those "better spec" jobs that are > cheap are made of cheap components and don't last as well.
I'm talking Dell, HP, Toshiba and Lenovo here. Similar quality components, sometimes better (HP for example uses Asus MB's on their desktops, better quality boards than the Mac desktop boards aside from the Mac Pro's). The components used in the non-Pro Mac's are nothing special and some parts (desktop PSU's in particular) are inferior to the standardized designs used in the PC world. > > And you can't run Mac OS X on them. For me, the ONLY purpose to having > Windows is for consulting purposes. For my own use, Windows is > irrelevant. Yep, and for you, Macs are thus the best choice. I'm in pretty much the opposite situation, only reason to run OS X is for fooling around with, for day to day use Windows and Linux cover my needs, mostly Windows as much of the software I need is Windows-only or Windows and Linux only. > > A box that can run Mac OS X, Windows and Linux is far more useful than > any box that can only run one or two of them. > -- > Godfrey That applies only for specialist uses. The vast majority of people, including the majority of people on the list, don't need to run more than one OS. Note Macs are poor hosts for OS's other than OS X or Windows as well, if you want to run multiple OS's a PC is a FAR better choice unless OS X is one of them. Both you and I are definitely out of the mainstream here. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
