Phate said:
not exactly....
You have to buy Mac compaitable graphics cards, whether they work in XP machines, I dunno.
RAM
For the MacBook and MacBook Pro's Kingston's Laptop RAM works perfectly.
Don't know about the iMac's - have never interested me
MacPro's - You can buy a 4gb pack of RAM from Crucial at a much cheaper price than Apple sell it for.
But the MacPro is a very good price for the machine it is.
£1600 for 2 dual core xeons, 1gb mem, 250gb sata, 7300GT, is very well priced, are you having some kinda joke? that would be badly priced for 2 quad core xeons would it not?
ok, as far as i can understand the mac pro uses the 5150 xeons which are £450ish a pop, which is a 1333mhz bus, the 667mhz bus version of the 2.66Ghz chip is £95 a pop. then throw in a £150-200 mobo for the dual xeons.
when a company that will be getting those xeons at probably a very close to the price of the other cheaper chip, using it as a reason to release an incredibly overpriced machine and making a massive massive profit on it.
the same performance , maybe even better could be had by a £600 quad core, or almost identical, again maybe even faster could be had by the 2.4Ghz Q6600 for £340 and a £100 mobo that has a faster chipset. that whole computer could easily be matched with an intel setup for half the cost if not less. its a horrible machine for the money. £900 for cpu's and £200 for mobo, then dumping £50 for memory, and what, £40 on gpu.
the 2.66Ghz quad core xeon that would work in that is only £750, which leaves more upgrade room aswell as being a big chunk cheaper. you can also spend £300 on a 1.86Ghz quad core xeon, so a 8 core rig would be £600, 1/3 less for massively more speed. they don't have normal desktop computers with single processor setups which means nothing on the cheap end. then for that setup they used the single worst chips you could really have in that machine, price/performance they are really the worst pair of chips you could choose.
i understand some of its down to intel and general server price setups, but that doesn't mean apple have to choose that particular setup.
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