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Is It Actualy FAIR to Compare the Two?

April 18th 2008 18:49
WHY? WHY? Can someone please tell me just WHY? Why do people prefer Macs over PCs? Why do people want to pay $700 more for a system that is effectively half as powerful as that of a competitors.

The cheapest Macbook Pro on Apple.com.au is being sold for a whopping $2700, what does it come with? Lets see, 2gb RAM, 200GB hard drive, 15 inch widescreen monitor, 2.4ghz core 2 duo, and the infamous 'super drive' (i.e. dvd burner).

Now Dell on the other hand, for just $2000, is offering an XPS laptop with 4gb RAM, 320GB hard drive, 15.4" widescreen monitor, and a 2.5ghz Core 2 Duo plus a one year warranty thrown in for good measure.


In every single point the DELL completely oblibetrates the Macbook Pro, side by side:

DELL 2.5ghz vs. Macbook Pro 2.4ghz
DELL 4gb RAM vs. Macbook Pro 2gb RAM
DELL 15.4" Screen vs. Macbook Pro 15" Screen
DELL 320GB hard drive vs. Macbook Pro 200gb hard drive.

*DELL, Macbook Pro

HELLO!? Does anyone else not see the friggin price differences? The best equivalent for the Macbook Pro DELL is offering is a $1900 system that has one gigabyte of extra RAM (3gb) and 320gb hard drive, matches the Macbook Pro on all other points.
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Apple Shuts Down Blog

December 20th 2007 16:13
Apple Sues Think Secret
Apple has reached a confidential agreement with popular Mac Rumour website 'Think Secret' of which one of the conditions is the aforementioned website shuts down. Apparently Apple doesn't like the idea of blogs talking about their products before they are released. It seems to be ok though that there are dozens of analysts who do the same.


Apple and Think Secret have settled their lawsuit, reaching an agreement that results in a positive solution for both sides. As part of the confidential settlement, no sources were revealed and Think Secret will no longer be published. Nick Ciarelli, Think Secret's publisher, said "I'm pleased to have reached this amicable settlement, and will now be able to move forward with my college studies and broader journalistic pursuits."

Maybe Apple is just being a little too harsh to this one blog?
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Get the RSCPA on PC Worlds Ass!

October 30th 2007 18:46
PC World Writer
Your Typical PC World Writer - Note Species and Typewriter
PC World have declared that the $2419 USD Mac Book Pro is the fastest Vista laptop they have ever tested which is, if anything, a clear indication the head honchos up at PC World HQ have been feeding illicit drugs to the monkeys who work for them.

The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year--or for that matter, ever--is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware. The $2419 (plus the price of a copy of Windows Vista, of course) MacBook Pro's PC WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88 beats Gateway's E-265M by a single point, but the MacBook's score is far more impressive simply because Apple couldn't care less whether you run Windows

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Oh thats great, of course they leave out the part about not testing any other highend notebooks in the past three months! I'm sorry but when putting a $2419 laptop against ones that cost half as much and making some profound declaration of its supposed superiority you are in fact stating the obvious. There is no difference between a Mac Book Pro and a regular laptop, it uses the same parts in the same configurations.

Blak Mac Book Pro
Hooray For Black?
But for arguments sake, lets put things into perspective, a notebook "Equipped with a 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T7700 processor, the maximum 4GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and nVidia's new top-of-the-line notebook graphics card, the nVidia GeForce 8600M GT" is something you would pay about $2000 USD if you were purchasing from Dell, except the videocard would be nVidias *real* top-of-the-line 8700M GT, the 8600M GT while being a great card for laptops and all is not nVidias top of the line.

Declaring that the Mac Book Pro is the fastest Vista laptop they have ever tested is misleading and if anything it shows that they really, REALLY need to start testing other Laptops. Of course they got the attention they were craving for and thats probably the only thing they were trying to do.
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It Just Works, Doesn't It?

October 15th 2007 00:51
If this was Microsoft they would have been torn apart by now, those SOBs get torn apart for some crazy bugs no one cares about yet Apple has been screwing over some of its customers quite sometime with a piece of software that doesn't work, where are the complaints?

Bootcamp on certain 24" iMacs (ones with outdated nVidia 7300/7600 videocards) doesn't work, in fact it hasn't been working since the launch of the iMac last year! Get this, Apple has been screwing over its customers with a buggy piece of crap software for the past year and no one has complained about it until now via this typical Apple fanboy blog post (typical in the sense it gives no sources and says it's a secret) showing off just how 'content' iMac users are


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The Expensive Mac

July 18th 2007 12:37
(All prices in AUD)

So I'm going to buy a new laptop, like always I have an annoying budget keeping me from buying the most ultimate of computers, just as well I'm not in the market for one, sticking to a maximum price of $1900 and not willing to budge above $2000 (if the deal is really good) I set out


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The Mighty Mouse is a "two button wonder"

April 12th 2007 09:16
I think one of the reasons PC users don't want to own a mac is because Apple treats its users as imbeciles. On the Mighty Mouse product page Apple declares it to be a 'two button wonder', my mouse has three buttons (scroll wheel clicks), does that make it the 'Mighty Mouse 2'?

A device so easy to use no one can use it, well almost, give it to some mac geeks who'll gawk over the Shuffle will love it to bits


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Best. Mac. Spoof. Ever.

February 8th 2007 13:59
Anti Mac Spoof… last one, I promise...

This ones too hilarious to pass up, I know it’s 99.99% propaganda, but damned if it isn’t hilarious


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Another Apple VS PC Spoof

February 8th 2007 11:20
Definitely one of the better ones out so far, I like how the inaccurate bias actually exists PC’s way, if you get your feathers all ruffled up, hey what can I say? This is what ‘Apple VS Mac’ ads are but they always go Mac’s way.

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How Easy a Mac is

February 8th 2007 10:10
So I read in the February issue of ‘Macworld’ of yet another one of those ‘from PC to Macintosh’ migrants. Jason Snell (editor) speaks of how his retired ex-executive uncle decided to move over to Mac claiming that the reason he wouldn’t move of past was because that Windows based software would not run on Mac’s and since the Mac’s switch to Intel CPU’s it has become more efficient to run Windows applications natively on OSX.

But why would his uncle move to Mac? Apparently because OSX is so much ‘easier’ to work with than Windows. The Mac Fanboys really, really, need to get their heads out of the sand if they really want to move on and properly challenge Microsoft’s dominance, there ‘once upon a time, happily ever after’ stories just doesn’t cut it, ignoring the facts does not make everything better


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PC VS Mac Spoof

February 4th 2007 21:53
Apple has been going the less than respectful route with its ‘I’m a PC, and I’m a Mac’ TV ads by misleading consumers considerably.

To that end lots of folk online have been putting their own parodies of these TV advertisements up, particularly on youtube


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