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Originally Posted by Gerco
I did this a little while back, but I'm to lazy to get todays price... so deal with it... But, here's a little wake up to all those yelling about how expensive a mac is...
Ok, this is just getting stupid. Lets compare price directly from Dell and Apple shall we? I used the closes configuration so this could be fair...
Ok, So starting with Apple
Configuration
twin 3.2GHz Quad Xeon
2 Gig Ram (Up to 32gb in Machine)
320 Gig HD (Could have up to 4 drives in machine)
1 16x superdrive
Video card, base included ATI HD 2600 XT 256MB
Apple 20' Flat display
Cost=$4,998.00
DELL
Twin 3.16 Quad Xeon x2
2GB Ram (Only shows up to 4 available in configuration)
320GB HD (can have up to 3)
1 16x dvd burner
Video card Base, included 256MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX570
20" ultrasharp flatscreen (Almost = to Apples display)
Starting Price $5,202
Instant Savings $524
Subtotal $4,678
By my math that a savings of 320 bucks buying the Dell over the apple... But wait..That was AFTER taking 524 bucks OFF dells price cause they happen to have a coupon right now. OK. The the actual price before applying any specials, the Dells more..
It can hold less drives, Hold less memory. The processors are slower...
Shall I go on? If your going to start telling people how much more expensive the apples are you should try to build a base machine that actually somewhat compares to the apple.
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That's a huge price difference seeming both boxes are pretty much ready to go out of the box. Once you drop the crap dell machines and move into hand built machines (something you can't really do with a Mac) - the difference really stands out.
That $500 could double the ram, case size, and add a drive.. or bump the board up, and add in a second video card.
The prices... I can build about two PC's for the price of a Mac... or double the speed of the PC - Which $500 on the just dell, would damn near double it's speed.