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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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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Bootcamp on certain 24" iMacs (ones with outdated nVidia 7300/7600 videocards) doesn't work, in fact it hasn't been working since the launch of the iMac last year!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.


I wouldn't tolerate it of Microsoft if my system didn't support software it should, heck, I can barely tolerate the fact that some games from the Windows 98 days don't run on Vista. But you know, Bootcamp is unimportant, the very reason those damned IntelMacs exist is just an extra thrown in. It's only a 'beta' version of the software which magically exempts it from working for about a full year.

This just goes without saying, too many Mac owners are too busy justifying their purchase that they don't dare complain about their faulty products. No one who uses a Windows machine would be that forgiving of Microsoft and rightly so, about time Apple fanboys got with the program and stopped allowing Apple from pushing them around. Theres no pride in owning a Mac, especially if one of its key features is stuffed.

You know what? Let me highlight the fact, look at the comments section,

You don't know what you've got till it's gone. Those white iMacs were actually quite a bit better than the current ones which have a glare-plagued screen and weak graphics. Come back, come back!

Well Wait for the xMac announcement in November.

Anyone know if the current iMacs have MXM slots either.

The name of the update strikes me as odd simply because Apple has never admitted to using the MXM card slot AFAIK.

It may be a MXM slot but you need a EFI rom on the video card for it to work.

I was wondering the same thing. Anyone know if an upgrade is possible? Maybe 8600GT 512MB DDR2 from MXM based notebooks.

So the first five posts is not about the fact Apple has not repaired a fatal software problem since almost about a year ago, it's either about how bad the new iMacs are (i.e. buy the old crappy one that doesn't actually run Bootcamp!), how we should wait for another rumoured announcement for another piece of crap that will probably have plaguing issues of its own, and the next three is all about 'awww, I wanna upgrade my Mac' to which I have the simple response of YOU CAN'T!

Naturally after all that crud theres something about how bad Apples behaviour has been

That's really poor that it's taken over a year to resolve that kind of issue and yet again graphics card related. They seriously need to think about hiring people who know what the hell they're doing when it comes to graphics. Carmack from id said they had to inform Apple's team about graphics-related problems in their software and there's been quite a few driver problems lately.

Does this go on? Nope, back to 'I wanna upgrade my shiny computer... oooh pretty liiiights!'

ati and nvidia used to code there own mac drivers maybe they should restart that and come out with video cards with efi roms for mac systems.

Now for a strange phenomenon, a Mac user actually complaining about his systems obvious failings,

I upgraded to the new iMac 24" aluminum just to run Boot Camp beta, and to my surprise I'm still having issues. While I can run Vista with good performance scores, I can't get the drivers to go up to full 1900x1200 resolution (max in Vista is something like 1900x1080!). I've tried everything, including installing ATI's Catalyst drivers; I'm assuming this will be fixed with Leopard. Rather, I'm hoping.

Naturally to wrap it up we have more 'I wanna have nice graphix cards like teh evil Micro$oft users!!1!!1!'

This was why I asked about MXM in Alu iMacs. If Apple is using MXM in all iMacs (and they could use them in MBP / Mac Minis in the future) then pretty soon there would be enough people with the slot and EFI to justify a third party card.

They use custem heat pipes and Heat sinks.

So what was the title of the article in question? "Apple's iMac MXM Updater to cure iMac's Boot Camp woes". It would seem Apple prides itself on having an idiot customer base.
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'But I Look Cooler'

June 15th 2007 09:34
Says Leopard. Yes, you do look cooler, but is that it? Besides ripping off Microsoft in severel different ways and adding a transperency effect to said rip offs have you added anything new?

Nope.

Nothing.

Nada.

Well... theres only a 64bit version of Leopard, no backwards 32bit, take that Microsoft!

Oh wait.

Thats nothing to be proud of.

excitement by the 5,000 WWDC attendees about many technologies in the forthcoming Mac OS X “Leopard”release that already exist in Windows Vista.

Source

Ah, well to be fair, just about every innovative new feature that has been found in an Apple OS thusfar has been shown in a Vista beta for quite sometime.

But hey what the hey, at least Leopard users will get a really cool background, lots of green grass... oh wait.

heh.
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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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