WRONG WRONG WRONG. When that POC Wintel box dies in 12 months and you realize you've lost all your email, favorites, letters, etc. and have to fix it or buy a new one, you're back to the eMac price. All you Dirt Cheap Wintel evangelists never like to talk about TCO since it doesn't fit your agenda.
You must have looked up the meaning of TCO because you seem to know what it stands for, but obviously have no idea what it means.
Every Mac that I, or anyone I know, have ever owned has out lasted similar Wintel boxes by a 2-1 factor -- at least. I have a 500Mhz G3 Powerbook and a 350Mhz G4 tower, both bought in 2000, both running the lastest OS X and both have power to spare. Try running XP on a nearly 4 year old PC. Hell, I fully expect both machines to last me another 12-18 months. So my "expensive" Macs have saved me one system "upgrade" each. So I'm probably $1500 - $2000 ahead in TCO.
As for upgrading things -- what would you like to change? Video card -- go for it. Hard drive? Buy any ATA/IDE off the shelf from Officemax. Memory? Same thing. CD/DVD/DVD-R/CD-R drives? Again, skip on down to CompUSA and buy whatever they have for the PC. They all work and work perfectly. No driver issues / no patches / no IRQ conflicts.
Try getting all the screws and crap out of the back of any Wintel machine, then try getting them back on. I'll I have to do is pop the side down on my G4, pop in the new memory and reboot. 30 seconds. If you are paying a tech to do this for you, the Mac even saves costs there.
Please, in the future, do not post about things you painfully do not understand.
"Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal."
The cast is perfect... Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, David Strathairn, Dan Aykroyd... even River Phoenix was good. I could watch this movie every day!:)
I hope so, but where did you see this? I've yet to officially confirm the fact that the hardware is x-plat. Also, why wouldn't Apple just toss the Windows app disc into the box with every "Mac" version, if host software is the only difference? Why have double the number of SKU's to deal with and possibly risk shipping errors, etc. I remain skeptical.
...get people to "Switch"? Why would I buy a Mac when my $500 Windows-only iPod won't work with it? Apple couldn't design drivers for Windows or jam a few more lines of code onto the firmware so that my new iPod will be cross-platform? Seriously bad move in my opinion. Seriously bad keynote. I'm a bit worried about my favorite company...
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6 months ago at Best Buy... "Excuse me, where are your color laser printers?" "Umm.... they don't make those anymore, do they?"
"Why don't you gentleman have a Pepsi?"
WRONG WRONG WRONG. When that POC Wintel box dies in 12 months and you realize you've lost all your email, favorites, letters, etc. and have to fix it or buy a new one, you're back to the eMac price. All you Dirt Cheap Wintel evangelists never like to talk about TCO since it doesn't fit your agenda.
You must have looked up the meaning of TCO because you seem to know what it stands for, but obviously have no idea what it means. Every Mac that I, or anyone I know, have ever owned has out lasted similar Wintel boxes by a 2-1 factor -- at least. I have a 500Mhz G3 Powerbook and a 350Mhz G4 tower, both bought in 2000, both running the lastest OS X and both have power to spare. Try running XP on a nearly 4 year old PC. Hell, I fully expect both machines to last me another 12-18 months. So my "expensive" Macs have saved me one system "upgrade" each. So I'm probably $1500 - $2000 ahead in TCO. As for upgrading things -- what would you like to change? Video card -- go for it. Hard drive? Buy any ATA/IDE off the shelf from Officemax. Memory? Same thing. CD/DVD/DVD-R/CD-R drives? Again, skip on down to CompUSA and buy whatever they have for the PC. They all work and work perfectly. No driver issues / no patches / no IRQ conflicts. Try getting all the screws and crap out of the back of any Wintel machine, then try getting them back on. I'll I have to do is pop the side down on my G4, pop in the new memory and reboot. 30 seconds. If you are paying a tech to do this for you, the Mac even saves costs there. Please, in the future, do not post about things you painfully do not understand.
Three words: Get a UPS.
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"Complex but lighthearted thriller about computers and cryptography, government and espionage, secrets and deception and betrayal."
The cast is perfect... Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, David Strathairn, Dan Aykroyd... even River Phoenix was good. I could watch this movie every day!
...oh yeah, and Tron too.
I hope so, but where did you see this? I've yet to officially confirm the fact that the hardware is x-plat. Also, why wouldn't Apple just toss the Windows app disc into the box with every "Mac" version, if host software is the only difference? Why have double the number of SKU's to deal with and possibly risk shipping errors, etc. I remain skeptical.
...get people to "Switch"? Why would I buy a Mac when my $500 Windows-only iPod won't work with it? Apple couldn't design drivers for Windows or jam a few more lines of code onto the firmware so that my new iPod will be cross-platform? Seriously bad move in my opinion. Seriously bad keynote. I'm a bit worried about my favorite company...
... or does anyone else find it spooky that my Windows Critical Updates kicked in just as I started to read these threads?
:)
Dum da dum dum.
Ice Race. I could play that for hours. I've never played Mario-anything for more than 15 minutes.