Mac doesn't need to make low end machines because one thing always overlooked in this argument is the fact that most Macs, since before the ole 8600 domination have been ProSumer level. Not consumer level. These chips and processors when assembled have been regarded as "Supercomputers" for years now, hence the G4 commercials with the tanks surrounding the box spinning. And I am not sure which Countries but some were not allowed to Import them due to whatever classifications they see fit (not sure on how that went but I read something on it years back).
People complain about the price of a 4k machine yet some of my music software cost damn near triple that. 4k on a mac is all hardware, and it is not consumer level, therefore the price. I have Mac software plug ins that emulate Vintage Sound Modules from the 60's that cost more than a Mac. Not to mention I have a friend with a full AVID digital video editing suite that ran him no less than 40k in addition to those SONY SUPERVHS decks and Swivel stick editing boxes.
Designers and Music Producers spend 40k on digital editing software, do you think a Dual mac g4 is gonna hurt them at 6k with a 21 Cinema Display? Shit my boy has dal 21" Cinema Displays man, that shit althought setting him back close to 5k, is worth every farking minute with 3 feet of Monitor Screen in front of you working between both monitors. Wish I could afford that hehehe... he edits Wildlife footage for some company.
I have NEVER played on a PC that could handle the type of damage I have done on a G4 copy n pasting 3 gig audio files from track to track while burning a dvd copy and stretching text in Photoshop6.
Mac blows away all processes and filter speeds in all graphics programs under all circumstances, and has done so since the early 90's or whenever Intel started that Pentium thing. I wont look up the links for these reports, but do a google search, Intel issues the report so it ain't rigged. ;)
To say "Macs suck" is to say pioneers of the GUI interface sucks, remember Microsoft wants to be a true GUI as Mac always has been. This debate can go on forever, and as stoned as I am I believe I could carry on. When Xerox was inventing the mouse who was stealing the ideas? Who has tried to be like who over the decades since the garage computer groups split and Bill Gates went his way to form Microsoft.
Are not 90+% of all video games designed on Mac? I know 90+% of all Cd Covers designed in big graphics houses are Mac Based. Every recording studio I have worked in has been Mac since 89, with the introduction of that beastly Macintosh 8700 with side panels and the most solid Midi Timecode rate second only to the Atari 520 ST hardwired MIDI Data Interfaces for old school gaming and electronic music, late eighties.
Like it or not Mac in most ways will always be superior due to its growing fan base with the introduction of the iMac, as you see above "it looks cool and my girl likes it" (j/k Hoop).... while to serious Mac users is a joke, is still, (judging by their quarterlies) quite profitable even with their latest releases and variations of the iMac and iBook, both toys to real macs, much like Emachines are viewed next to a hand built Kick ass PC, which BTW a solid ass PC rocks, I own a few. ;)
One can drive a Porsche because one can, the seats in a Volkswagon Bug can be the same Bucket seats out of Cadillac, but its still not a Cadillac.
Damn those fucking dual 21" minotors kicked ass.
