Reply #119: That's beside the point, which was why I didn't mention it... [View All]

[Deja Q]

Dual-CPU PCs costs well under $3000. The cost/benefit ratio still points to the PC unless you're doing something very specific, and even then does the performance make up for the price in the end? Not always, though not never...

Yes, I know the Mac's CPU will blow away a Pentium 4. But there's more to a computer than a CPU. And for $3000, because I would spend that money for a very fast top-of-the-line system, I'd expect NO LESS than 1GB RAM and a top-of-the-line video card. The Radeon 9600 is not top-of-the-line by any means. Apple is ripping you off by cutting such corners. You can't justify it. I'd expect 512MB RAM and a 9600 in the $2000 model I suppose (though for well under $2000 I can build a PC with the fastest P4 or Athlon processors WITH 1GB of RAM and a Radeon 9800, or better the Nvidia GeForce 5900FX Ultra...)

And Linux tops it off for the OS too.

It's going to be hard to win new converts to the Mac when Linux is poised to be the successor when it uses existing hardware and still runs loads faster than Windows.