I still like my iPhone tho. But its got to be the ONLY Mac product witch aint overpriced
great touchscreen and practicality , still overpriced and has shit features
ishit has always been overpriced , just look what they are charging for the current gen ipod shuffle and how much they spend actually manufacturing it.
it's called expanding the profit margin, every company does that. and why shouldn't they, as long as their iStuff sells like hotcakes?
erm I've worked with 3D rendering on both a mac (bootcamp) and my laptop ..my laptop was faster at rendering than the iMac....and your video editing argument is invalid - more powerful the hardware, specifically the hard drive (could be wrong though), the quicker you can edit.
but I am on Waldo's side of the argument, and not just because I'm a mac user.
Waldo was right about the price thing. The thing with mac is, everything is fine tuned to run exclusively on a mac. You dont get all the compatibility issues you get from building a PC. OSX also requires far far FAR less power from hardware to run under heavy load, which means all that extra RAM and power gets used to further speed things up. It's a hell of a lot faster.
I just did a test : I have an old HP laptop - 2.2ghz c2d, 2 GB RAM, fresh install of windows XP pro. Next to it I have my macbook, fresh install of OSX. I installed photoshop on both - Mac took 30 seconds or more from un-raring, moving the dmg to applications folder and applying crack. Windows took around 2 minutes unpacking, installing, applying the crack. Go figure.. Anyway this is not my point.
Both where set aside. I got a finger on each mouse, and clicked launch on PS at the same time. Macbook took 5 seconds to load up and away we go. HP laptop took 1 minute more. Ages on teh blue loading screen with PS on it. Stupid. The macbook is slightly less powerful than the HP yet it thrashed it.
I like you too, but that still doesn't change the fact of my point; Apple hardware is *not* faster than any other hardware of the same specification. It isn't mate, it really isn't. My points aren't about the OS (seriously, try Win7 and compare it to OSX Snow Leopard with an *objective* eye and you'll find negligible performance differences) it's about the hardware, the vastly - unnecessarily - overpriced hardware. As for the stability of the OS, that was already covered in this thread with an indisputable fact; there are extremely limited sets of hardware you can use on OSX, so Apple fine-tunes the OS for that. Much the same way a 360 or PS3 can play some games that PCs struggle with -- not because of more power, but because the game in question (in this case, the OS with OSX) has been tuned and retuned and fine-tuned and optimised purely for one specification.
My point began, and ends, with the question; Why is a 4870 on Apple hardware over two and a half times more expensive than on PC? ATi still write the drivers, the cards are still the same speed, have the same speed/size of RAM -- so what makes the Apple one so much more expensive?
The simple answer is; because Apple are scum and their fanboys will pay anything, absolutely anything, to be considered "hip" and "popular" by being part of a crowd
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