On Sep 3, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 4 Sep 2006 at 2:49, William T Goodall wrote:
On 4 Sep 2006, at 2:27AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
Andrew Crystall wrote:
A low-end Mac Pro will cost you $2,124 compared with $3,071 for a
In America. For one specific model. And with a very expensive
Windows
PC make for comparison. And without similar options for warranty,
etc.
Here in Brazil it's even worse. A Mac costs about twice as much
as the equivalent PC-cum-Windoze.
But that's a short sighted view. The Mac is much cheaper in the long
term. I recently retired an old Mac still in working order, that was
nearly ten years old. Ten years of useful life!
Reliable technical sources available on the internet confirm that a
Windows PC connected to the internet is filled with backdoors,
trojans, key-loggers and other malware in ten minutes. Ten minutes of
useful life!
Thus even if a Mac cost $100,000 and a PC only $1 over the course of
ten years the Mac would work out cheaper! Still only $100,000 whereas
you'd need over $500,000 worth of PCs!
Comparisons Maru
Yes, if you're a blithering retard, as apparently you are. There are
no other words for it.
On the contrary, there may well be better words for it, such as "better
informed about the current state of the Macintosh line than you seem to
be." Or, "not just shooting his mouth off without being in possession of
the facts."
Let's see, on one hand you're comparing the length a machine can run
without breaking down, which is based largely on build quality.
Moreover, that mac largely is a sealed box, and you can't upgrade
parts, etc.
Oh. My. Gawd. That old line? It's only been 19 years since that was
true.
Here's a nice, short URL that might help: http://www.apple.com/macpro/
From the page:
The brilliantly redesigned Mac Pro enclosure accommodates up to
four drives and 2TB of storage; offers 8 DIMM slots to fill with
up to 16GB of RAM; provides up to two SuperDrives. You also have
four PCI Express slots, and more I/O ports — including two
additional ports up front.
Marketing hype aside, I think if you actually look, you'll see that
not only
do Macs come equipped with a lot that you'd have to _add_ to most
PCs, they
have all the expandability that most people could possibly want. And
you'll
find that opening up a Mac and accessing all that expandability is a
darn
sight easier than most PCs: it's like Apple actually _expected_ that
people
might want to expand their machines, so the made it easy and pleasant
to do.
Sealed box my achin' arse.
Blithering. Retard.
Don't be so hard on yourself: lots of Windows users are uninformed
about how
far the Mac has progressed.
Peace,
Dave
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