(If MS actually made these programs, they’d probably be sued for abusing their monopoly ) I am sure you can find comparable software for Vista. IApps are not part of a Mac, you have to purchase them adding to the total price. “Not only Apple hardware is no more expensive than competitors like DELL or Sony but with a mac you have iApps that are priceless for windows users because they have no equivalent softs in term of easiness, integration and overall performance/reliability.” Again, if you don’t insist on Apple specs, and why on earth would you, you’ll get more for your money from name brand PC suppliers.Īnd your brain will not be contorted by fake logic as you do it. Method B is to take a price and find suppliers to it. As long as you do not want an all-in-one, or a tiny AOpen style form factor, or two Core Duos and nothing else worth having (a true Lada with a Porsche engine), you will find that most name brand PC suppliers deliver you a better machine at a lower price. Method A is, take a spec and find suppliers.
Here is how to do it, which is the way real customers work when buying things. What if you just want to buy a computer? Will you generally get better price performance by buying a Mac? No you will not. It shows that if you want this particular configuration you can buy it cheaper from Apple.
Ha! say the advocates, you see, this proves Macs cost less.
It usually costs about the same or a bit more. The method used is to take a given Mac configuration and then match it exactly. Therefore gulls in general are darker than pigeons in general. The argument used is of the form: one gull is darker grey than one pigeon. For example, Seagate/Maxtor has added a user-accessible jumper-switch, known as the Force 150, to enable the drive to be switched between 1.5 Gbit/s and 3 Gbit/s operation.The evidence put forward by people who believe Macs are (now) cheaper than Dells does not in fact show what they say it does.
Install a jumper as shown in the following illustration to limit the data transfer rate to 1.5 Gbits per second and enhance compatibility with some computers. B, January 2006 - Your SATA-equipped motherboard or host adapter may use a chipset that does not support SATA speed autonegotiation or other 3 Gbit feature.
Seagate's Barracuda 7200.9 Serial ATA Installation Guide, Publication Number: 100390002, Rev.
Mac Drive Upgrades/Compatibility Database.iMac G5 Hard Drive Upgrade-Jumper settings?.Why will only certain SATA data cables work?.Set jumper on hard drive to limit feature set to SATA revision 1.0 (SATA 1.5 Gbit/s) - OK (over a month 23 months and counting!) After yet another week or two, question mark returns.Hard drive has failed (verified on another Mac) - install new hard drive and repeat step 1 - OK After another week or two, question mark returns.After a week or two, question mark returns.Partition/format drive, run hardware tests (passed), install OS X - OK IMac G5 SATA hard drive keeps disappearing # IMac G5 SATA hard drive keeps disappearing