In article <1105957507.141833@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Waldo
<graaf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > This isn't the place to go into all the details, but those expense and
> > speed of Apple computers ideas are both a myth to a large degree. For
a
> > start you save a ton on after-purchase Microsloth IT sup****t, plus
Macs
> > use a totally different chip design so trying to compare a 3GHz
Pentium
> > X to a 1.8GHz GX is pointless when based on just those numbers.
>
> The IT sup****t for Mac is not so perfect as you state (neither is the
> Windows...).
It's not that Apple's IT sup****t is perfect, but simply you don't need
it anywhere near as much.
> I know both chip designs and I know you can't always trust
> the numbers of the benchmarks, but when a dual G5 is losing of a single
> P4, I am starting to get worried. Anyway, running our own applications
> on both systems (both single CPU, P4 vs. G5) performance is still in
> favor of the P4, no matter how much you hate Intel.
It depends greatly on what you're doing and how you measure it (most
benchmark tests are ridiculous things that nobody in the real world
actually does or does so occasionally that they wouldn't even notice
their machine is "slower"), but it is often slower and more difficult
to do actual work on a Windoze computer than it is on a Mac ... once
you've learnt to use the Mac of course.
> > Apple has also just released the Mac Mini, a US$499 computer (although
> > you do have to add a monitor and keyoboard / mouse to theat price).
>
> Yeah and what are the specs of the Mac Mini? I like the case though ;-)
It's the lowest-end model they make, so it's not very expanable and the
specs are pretty hopeless for "power users", but it is a great machine
for the average secretary, home user, etc.
> In Europe, the prices of Mac systems are much higher than in the USA.
> That is also a reason why their sales are decreasing here rapidly. On
> the other hand, Mac has never been here as big as in the USA. Only in
> the graphics industry it was very common, but that is also ****fting.
The prices on Apple on almost everything Apple makes recently dropped,
some of them quite significantly. You also have to remember that
Apple's computers include things like Ethernet that are often missing
from cheapo Windoze PCs.
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