In other words companies are regularly flauniting the fact that they are spending £2000 on something that a £400 pc could do....
And?
Basically what you are saying is that everyone who buys a mac is stupid because they could get something for less to do the same job.
I use both systems regularly, Windows 7 *almost* made me build a i7 PC but it didn't. I bought a Mac Pro, and now it works perfectly. (OK it was 3 months but if I had changed the cable at the start then it wouldn't have been an issue but nevermind that...)
People pay for this "overpriced tat" because it is 100% worth it.
My MBP was £300ish over the equiv dell, and my GOD I thank myself for doing that now I've actually seen what the equivalent was (A mate at uni bought it), its heavy, loud, battery life sucks, worse performance even tho its the same hardware
etc.
So go and take your stupid comments elsewhere.
I'd agree with this, however I think it proves why Macs are not worth the money.
We have a bunch of Powermac G5s in my office which the designers use. Have you ever tried to network Macs? My advice, don't.
Also just as a real-world example, the G5's (which were about £2k IIRC) take about 25-30 seconds to open PS CS2. My £400 desktop takes less than 15. Opening a large PSD over the network on the macs is akin to loading a game from a casette tape on a spectrum, minus the screeching.
£400 desktop built when? Disk specs? Memory size? My MBP opens CS4 in 20ish secs from cold and MP about 10 secs.
And Networking macs is easy as? What's the problem? It took one tick box to share my Mac Pro to my Macbook Pro. I've yet to manage to get XP or Windows 7 to communicate with each other on the most simplest of sharing tasks.
I've had:
Performa 630, Powermac 6100, 7600, 8600, Beige G4, B&W G4, 2 x PM G4 MDD, iBook G4, June 2007 MBP, iPhone 2G, Early 2009 Mac Pro, iPhone 3GS.
Up until the silly DVI issue with the MP its been perfect.
In the same time I've built PCs, bought Dells (Optiplex GX1), etc. And NEVER will I again, the hassle sometimes is just, unbelievable!
So that's 15 years of using both, my father is at 20 years of using both and we are both, firmly from experience, Apple users.
Its stupid we have to debate this over, and over and over. Its our money, we do what the hell we want with it. If you don't want to part with the cash then don't, just don't criticise the fact we do.
Its like buying a 1.5 Golf over a 1.5 Kia, same size car, same engine, Golf looks better, will probably last better and is generally a nicer car to drive.
I think this topic has gone off track abit, lock/delete?
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