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Originally posted by Digipimp
Price price price, you guys you should be smart enough to know that you get what you pay for. The cheapest G4 you can get is $799 not $1500, the eMac has a G4 in it and does more than most people need. However you guys feel like you're powerusers, so I wonder how can someone be a poweruser and not be able to afford $1500. Either you're not a poweruser or you're not a successful businessman.
$1500 is not expensive to get what you get with a powermac, including the software that's free on it and the hardware. Sure it's more than if you go and build your own PC, but you get what you pay for , you get quality and dependability.
No one needs to convince you guys to buy macs' those of us that you use them are happy and doing well, and if others can see the use and benefits then welcome to the macworld, you won't regret switching.
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i use enough stuff that drags down a 2000+ with 512mb ram.
it's not just the box... then you have to buy the new software in some cases, which is not always cheap (a mac doesn't come with studio mx, $900), plus monitor adapters or a new monitor, stuff like that. add in a little downtime for the learning curve.
i'm not talking about cheap computer-show type hardware in a pc either. stuff like abit, corsair, ati, etc.
you're also talking about a base-model mac. i have a lot of extras in my machine, including 300gb of hard drive space (of which i'm using most of). yeah, right now i have over $2000 worth of crap in my computer, including the monitor, speakers, etc.
i just customized a machine that would be very comparable in perfomance and storage, with monitor, and it comes up to $4778. and that's not using their most expensive display, just the closest one they offer that's similar to mine (g4 desktop).
you're correct about the emacs, excuse me for that, i never really looked into the emac. a somewhat comparable emac would be $1800... which isn't bad at all, although it is missing a few things that would be kindof essential.. like storage, so figure in a couple hundred for a firewire hdd. it didn't specify the video, but i'm sure it would be adequate. how is the upgradability of an emac, just out of curiosity?
yeah, you do get what you pay for, that's why i always buy nice, name-brand high-end pc parts. and i rarely have something fail... except for my old kenwood 72x cdrom. that sucked, i loved that drive. oh yeah, that and my razer boomslang, those are the only things i've ever had that actually failed.