On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:46:44 +0200, Orchid XP v3 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I too keep thinking about maybe getting a Mac of some kind... I've  
> always wondered what a Mac is like. Everybody says the Mac is the best,  
> but I've never actually seen one in real life. I don't know of any shop  
> anywhere in the world that sells them.
>
> Now and then I look online at prices. But... really... I just can't  
> justify such astronomical prices. If you buy a Mac, you buy a sealed box  
> with no upgradable components. For the kind of stuff I do, CPU power is  
> everything. And... well, I let the numbers speak for themselves:
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> So, let me see here...
>
> * I can buy a 1.86 GHz laptop for less than the cheapest MacBook (which  
> is only 1.83 GHz and half as much RAM).
>
> * I can buy a 1.86 GHz desktop for less than the cheapest Mac mini  
> (which is only 1.66 GHz and has half as much RAM).
>
> * The iMac... OK, it's a monitor as well. A good LCD monitor costs,  


> less RAM).
>
> Add to that the fact that none of this stuff is upgradable, whereas the  
> comodity equivilents are... (BTW, I really dislike the iMac idea. So, if  
> my monitor breaks, I buy a whole new computer? That's a winner!)
>
> Of course, what none of the PCs have is Mac OS X. So I guess it depends  
> on whether you think that's worth an extra +80% in price or not... From  
> the pictures I've seen, OS X looks reeeeaaally pretty. But having never  
> actually used it, not knowing how hard it is to work it, etc... Do I  
> want to spend many hundreds of pounds on something I might not actually  
> like?
>
> (Then there's the minor issue that all my software requires M$ Windoze  
> in order to function. Well, except POV-Ray...)



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