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Klang Wopat
"The Consultant"
Join date: 19 Sep 2006
Posts: 212
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07-19-2007 13:44
I've been following this thread with interest, for a couple of reasons. I've been a Mac owner in the past, but moved to the PC under pressure from the business culture that surrounds me. I'd like to go back to a Mac--probably a 15" MacBook Pro with the fastest CPU available, the best video card, and maxed-out RAM (4 gigs!). This prices out at US$3500+ on the Apple store site.
Why do I want to do this?
OS X.
For the cool looking HW.
Because I want to tie in to an Apple infrastructure (itunes, televison, iphone, etc).
To be different.
Because I look like a blond Steve Jobs.
What am I using now? A PC based on a Pentium 4 3.2 ghz CPU with multi-threading, four gigs of fast RAM, two 256 meg VPUs, and 22-inch and 17-inch flat screen monitors. It cost me less than US$1500 to put together three years ago. It runs on Windows XP SP2. It has been turned on for three years and has never crashed or frozen (I do perform periodic maintainance on it, both OS and HW).
It runs SL beautifully--smooth, fast, no crashes. It's a Corvette of computers.
Of course, I drive a MINI Cooper S JCW. And I still want the MacBook Pro. It's just a cool thing to have (do I have to learn all the keyboard commands for SL over again?!!!)
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Har Fairweather
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Join date: 24 Jan 2007
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07-19-2007 14:03
From: shiney Sprocket I have a 24" iMac here along with a laptop with the same PC specs as you mention (other then laptop has faster CPU) and i find the iMac runs SL great if not as good as my 4800+ /w 4GB Ram and NVIDIA 7800 GTX video card.
Har Fairweather: "In general, I think the difference between PC and Mac is like the difference between GM and BMW. From GM, you can get a far wider variety of "hardware," and if you buy a stripped Chevy, for example, you can get a way lower price. The GM products will take you down the same roads as the BMWs, to the same destinations, and at about the same speed (if you are not on a German autobahn). But what the hell, some people woould just rather own a BMW."
Do you realize BMW also offers MANY Different forms of its vehicles for those who can't afford the top models. That is why most of the BMWs you see on the road are the cheap models not the top of the line. For example, how many 3 Series 335i's do you see vs 328i? And if you see X5's they are usually 3.0i models. 4.8is's are few and far between. BMW offers many more models and a wider variety of choice then Chevy.
So if anything Apple = Chevy with few models and basic options.
PC = BMW with many models and loaded with options.
Also, a stripped chevy does not drive nor perform like a BMW. Actually, people who have recent (Intel) Macs have a Windows machine too - the current generation of Macs can run both. Guess which OS they prefer when they can use either, or even both simultaneously? Oh, and sometime last year I ran across a copy of PC World in a dentist's office that polled users on their level of satisfaction with their machines. The winners, about neck-and-neck: computers self-built by their owners - and those who had Macs (and remember, this is PC World). Sony placed pretty darned high, right behind the top two. Everybody else trailed way back in the pack. And personally, I own Subarus. Really great cars. Similar concept to what Apple does with its products. |
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Klang Wopat
"The Consultant"
Join date: 19 Sep 2006
Posts: 212
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07-19-2007 14:20
From: Har Fairweather And personally, I own Subarus. Really great cars. Similar concept to what Apple does with its products. Yep, know what you mean. I just sold my WRX--what a hoot of a car! And great in any weather and on any road! If I could only have one car, it'd be a Forester or WRX wagon...although the MINI is just so much fun.... Yep, again. I've read excellent reports about running XP on a Mac now--another reason to buy one, because it gives you even more options. I've read a couple threads in the SL Mac forum from people who run sl on XP on their Macs, and then use OS X for everything else. According to those posts, sl actually runs better on XP on a Mac then under OS X, something about the the build. I've always thought it was ironic that sl, which is based on open-source software and standards, reputedly runs best on the most proprietary operating system of them all! But Windows is where the SW money is, I guess. |