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Originally Posted by MikoLayer
the problem people in the know are fully aware dells dont use the best parts and charge you an outrageous amounts of money (unless you find some deal like the 400sc one, even then the parts are far from the best). comparing them to apples is not 'apples to apples' per se. why would you buy dells if you were given a choice to build something much higher quality for less $$$? with apple you really cant help going with a vendor computer, i might look into apples once they start selling seperate parts. to sum it up, to say apples look cool is one thing; to say they compare well in terms of bang-for-buck is either blatantly misleading or uneducated at best.
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i've never thought dells were "the best"...but many people would buy a dell rather than build their own because they don't know how to build one or they'd rather not take the time to do it. that's not hard to figure out. i'd rather buy a headphone amp or have someone make me one because i don't know how to build it myself. i could learn, but i don't have the time. that's not a problem with the hardware, it's a problem with having the know-how to build one.
sure, you can build a DIY that's better and much cheaper...but we apple folk just don't have that luxury. all we can do it comparison-shop, look for specials, and do the best we can. and even though you might disagree, i think apple's bang for buck is pretty close to comparable systems you buy from most PC manufacturers. some areas are not as good, some better. maybe not every apple product, but many of them...i actually think the eMac is apple's best consumer product out there.
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Even if money were no object, it's raw performance for me. I need the extra edge that PC's give me for Photoshop and Painter. Mac's have always been behind the edge of the performance curve. Mac benchmarks have continually used Photoshop benchmarks as a crutch, but if you ask the top people in the Photoshop development team at Adobe, you may be surprised to find out that they use PC's.
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ummm, no, that doesn't surprise me. but the difference is a matter of seconds, and that surely cannot be the sole reason for choosing one system - a few seconds. even steve job's pixar uses linux machines for their animation rendering...he knows what's faster.
look, i know that PCs have their uses and they're needed in many businesses and homes...i'm not saying that apple doesn't have its shortcomings...but for me and a lot of other people out there, apple machines work great. we'd rather put up with the shortcomings of apple than put up with the shortcomings of PCs. simple as that.
p.s. i don't agree with everything 3lusiv3 said above, so don't lump me into that sort of mac zealotry...macs don't always get the job done as fast or better than other systems...in fact, there are some apps that run on PCs that i'm much rather use than their comparable apple ones. still, i enjoy the Mac user experience and most of what it has to offer...if that makes me a crazy mac zealot, then so be it.