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Originally Posted by pornopete
You are very misinformed.
Yes intel makes the chip, but the chip you will get in $500 laptop and the chip you will get in a $1200 mac are probably very different. Yes apple has a pretty big markup but they sell a quality product.
Use one for a day and you will immediatly see the difference.
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My machine runs 2x Intel Xeon E5620 Westmere 2.4GHz processors. The same exact processors that were available in Mac Pro's when I built this machine.
They are (were) the same exact processor/chip.
And in regards to other Macs, they use the same exact i5's and i7's that are available for PC's. There is no chip/processor difference whatsoever.
Same thing with the video cards. Well, ok, the bios/firmware of the video cards are written differently because they have to support EFi but the hardware specifics themselves are exactly the same. And you can reflash the bios/firmware with the PC counterpart and run them in a pc just fine; not that the average user ever would but it serves the purpose of proving that they are exactly the same hardware wise.
Same thing with the RAM, HDD's, etc.
Not to be rude but sorry, you should at least try to sound like you know what you're talking about before claiming someone else is misinformed.