Apple's Price Beats Dell and Hand-Assembled Computers

I didn't say it didn't have some advantages, just not games.

I wonder if SLI would work when running in WinXP on Apple hardware. Hmm. I don't see why not.

~Ulrika~

Please see the parent post. It shows a one-for-one comparison with an Apple, Dell, and hand-assembled computer.

~Ulrika~

If you spent $6000 on house call consultants, you need to learn how to use a computer. Maybe you -should- just stick with a mac where you don't have to know anything about computers.

The mobo is important in SLI.

Stop repeating yourself! You've said this over and over again like a religious person using circular logic.

Let's go over this again: People can't afford $2,400. Period! Get it through your thick skull! Apple does not make a low end tower!

EDIT: Sorry for my rudeness, but you are REALLY starting to piss me off with your circular logic over and over again.

Even in games, from my understanding (I don't have mine just yet) - offloading other system tasks to the other core.

It uses an Intel chipset. I'll look into this and see if I can find anything out.

~Ulrika~

welp my laptop came with it. oh its PC.

I thought you were interested in the logic behind owning a system, not in random statistics. Your comparison is fine - but flawed. Dual Xeon processors? Nobody uses dual Xeon processors in the home market. It's stupid. The artical you linked even basicly says as much. Ditch those and the overpriced mobo they slot into, get a a C2D Conroe, buy yourself some real ram, and a videocard that isn't last years asswipings, you'll have a much better desktop system and half the price.

What you're doing is showing that one brand of dump-truck is cheaper than the other - when dump-trucks aren't required in the first place.

It's not the chipset, or the maker - nVidia mobo chipsets are the bees knees, if we're talking about chipsets. It just depends on how the motherboard is made - and I've never seen "Mac" and "SLI" in the same sentance, so I'm thinking no, they don't, but I could be wrong.

I don't think you understand what circular logic is. Hint: it has nothing to do with repetition.

Your statement is false. Hundreds of thousands of people (like me) can afford that price. In fact, Apple shipped approximately 600,000 G5 PowerMacs in 2005. Dell probably shipped 6,000,000 in that price range. Exactly who here has the thick skull?

~Ulrika~

How does a laptop come with SLI when it requires multiple video cards? Also, new Apples are PCs. They run WinXP now.

~Ulrika~

Thank you for wording it with some more tact than I have left. Religious mac people seem to be saying that same message over and over again, and they seem to forget what it is that people besides themselves get computers for. I've completely run out of patience for people who say, "compare this expensive computer with this expensive computer--see, this one's less expensive" and they say it over and over and over and over again as if people didn't hear it the first 20 times.

Circular logic is going back to the same argument over and over again even though it didn't prove anything the first time. It's like someone going back to, "Because the bible says so" argument over and over again. There's a hole in the bucket dear Liza.

That's fine, you can afford it, you're rich and can dump 2k on something without blinking an eye. People like me and millions of others cannot.

yup. my laptop has two video cards. two Geforce 7900GTX's.

There's no conceptual reason why a laptop can't have two video cards. I can show you a laptop with paired 512 meg video cards in SLI quite easily.

I'm not interested in the "logic" and the link in the parent post provides no statistics, let alone those which are random. It's simply a straight-forward comparison of cost as compared to a G5, Dell, and hand-assembled computer with equivalent parts. hrug:

We could ditch and replace but then we wouldn't be comparing the same systems, which is the point of the article and this thread, now isn't it?

You're making an error stating that this computer isn't required. Instead you should be stating that it isn't required for you. Given that there are at least 2 million workstation-class machines of all brands moved in the U.S. alone for home and professional use, I would say that they are very much "required". Mine arrives in two weeks. *augh*

~Ulrika~

sure they're owned by dell now but... have any of Mac guys been to the wonderful world of alienware.com, or how about Voodoo? and of course theres always Falcon...

Freaky! Please post a link so I can check out the website where they're sold. I'm very interested in this.

~Ulrika~

Link please! I didn't know such technology existed. I have a friend who would be very interested in this.

~Ulrika~

www.alienware.com www.voodoopc.com

I've seen a little bit. Their hardware is too white trash for me. I'm just not turned on by tricked out cases. I prefer something professional and elegant.

~Ulrika~

How about a link to the laptop, lazybones?

~Ulrika~

Actually, it's ALL statistics. Part specs and prices. No data whatsoever.

If you're not interested in logic, what's the point? Price comparisons with no logic behind them are stupid. "This land is cheaper than this land!" "What do you need the land for?" "Doesn't matter! This land is cheaper!".



It is the point of the artical, and in doing so the artical looses any point whatsoever. I thought you cared about intelectual debate, however, Ulrika, so I assumed you actually cared about, you know, logic n stuff.



And if you *need* a workstation-class computer, knock yourself out. The vast majority of the computer market does NOT, however, including no doubt a ton of people who buy that system anyhow because it's what Mac is willing to sell them.

Like I said before - if you need a dumptruck, go ahead and buy that dumptruck. But don't start a thread about how dumptruck brand X is better than Y in a forum about offroading, which is what you just did.