Really? No offense, but I call BS.
I have a Dell Dimension 9200 (actually have two). Nice size case. Spots
for 6 SATA drives (6 ports). Integrated RAID. Integrated gigabit. 7.1
Integrated sound, including optical out.
Mine came equipped with:
E6600 Core 2 Duo processor (4mb cache, very fast)
1GB Ram
Windows XP Pro ($100 more than Home)
nVidia 7300LE video card (cheap, but serviceable)
250GB SATA II Hard drive
The Mac Pro STARTS at $2499. I wouldn't want an integrated monitor, so the
Mac Pro would be comparable.
Even if I considered an iMac, it isn't offered with the E6600, just lesser
processors. The 24" version starts at $1999. Since my 24" monitor was only
$550, that makes the iMac $1450.
My price, delivered to my home? $863. Brand-new, not refurbished. Included
a USB Mouse and Keyboard.
Find me a nice Mac with comparable specs for under $900.
I know this is a religious war and I LIKE the Macs and revisit buying one
every few months. The economics just DO NOT WORK.
Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Winsor Crosby
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 11:19 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Intel Mac users only -- mac and pc the lines
> just got totally blurred -new parallels
>
>
> All you have to do is google "cost pc vs. mac" to find lots of
> comparisons that show there is no significant cost difference between
> comparably equipped computers regardless of OS. It has been true for
> a long time.
>
> Frankly most of are happy that Apple is a hardware company that
> writes software tailored specifically to its own hardware and does
> not waste time and resources trying to compete with Microsoft in
> producing a generalized OS for whatever PC gets produced by someone
> else. How is that Nikon D2X with its "closed, unlicensable" RAW file
> system working out for you? Works fine for me, Tom.
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
>
>
>
>
> On / June 11, 2007 CE, at 7:55 AM, Tom Scales wrote:
>
> > You do all realize that this would work flawlessly on a
> > significantly less
> > expensive computer. Pretty much anything with a current Intel
> > processor.
> > The only thing preventing that is the closed, unlicensable OSX
> > operating
> > system?
>
>
>
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