A write-up on hating the Macs

[drogulus]

Performance and performance/dollar are two completely different things.  No one will argue that a Mac isn't cheaper for hardware of the same configuration.  The question is whether it is worth it. 

There are also two ways to do the comparison.  You can say, "to get this same hardware on a MAC I'd have to pay $2000 rather than $1000.  Do I really want to plunk down another $1000?"  Or you could say, "for the same $1000 I'd get a MAC with a smaller display and slower processor."   But maybe that $1000 MAC with less impressive hardware configuration would still give more pleasure than the $1000 PC."

     No, I agree. If you want a Mac for less you can move down powerwise and pay a smaller premium while getting something good. That's if you want/need a Mac regardless. Then price only matters when configuring your Mac. I would want to be sure, though, that a Mac serves my purposes in a way that a PC, even a customized supercharged model, doesn't.

     One of these days I might get a low/mid level Mac just to learn it. Probably I'll find out it's really a cool machine for a few things I don't care about, but who knows?

[Ten thumbs]

As I see it, if there were not both PCs and Macs that would be very bad for the market and future development. Ideally we could do with a new competitor from China. What do the Russians use?