“Normally, after matching other hardware specs, keeping the hardware specs in line with each other includes making sure that if one system includes a display, the other system includes one as well. In this particular case, the price discrepancy was so great between the two systems that I made an exception,” Charles Gaba reports for Mac vs. PC System Shootouts.
Gaba reports, “As a result, the Apple system includes the $699 20″ Cinema Display, while the Dell only includes the tower. For an alternate comparison, remove the Cinema Display, add Apple’s AppleCare warranty (3 years of both hardware & software support) for $249, and you’re still left with a $450 price advantage for the Mac Pro.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Not only is the Apple Mac far less expensive than the Dell, it’s also much more capable. While Macs can run virtually all the software in the world, the Dell can’t run Mac OS X or best-in-class Mac-only apps like iLife ’06. Basically, we’ve now arrived at the point where you’d have to be painfully ignorant to purchase any desktop or notebook personal computer that doesn’t have an Apple logo on it.
We think that Joe and Jane Sixpack are actually about to realize this fact sooner than later (amazingly, huh? – it’s about time, we know) and the steady stream of cardboard boxes stuffed with commodity-grade Dell, HP, Gateway, and other OS-limited Windows PC junk that rolls out of Best Buy each day is about to dwindle into nothing more than a trickle comprised mainly of the criminally stupid.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Bear Stearns: Apple’s new Mac Pro, Xserve pricing well below comparable Dell systems – August 09, 2006
Apple cuts prices across entire Cinema Display line – August 08, 2006
Dell warns of earnings miss; shares plunge 15% – July 21, 2006
Survey shows big jump in consumer interest in buying Apple Mac; Dell takes steep slide – July 06, 2006
The Wired 40: Apple #2, Microsoft drops to #36, Dell falls off list – June 28, 2006
Time Magazine on Apple’s 13-inch MacBook: ‘Dell and HP should be very worried’ – June 07, 2006
Apple passes Dell in market value – May 02, 2006
Dude, you got a Dell? What are you, stupid? Only Apple Macs run both Mac OS X and Windows! – April 05, 2006
Dear 7up,
For me, iPhoto is an essential must-have for business and pleasure, as are the other i-Life component programs.
To give you a fix on speed, from clicking the icon to screen display takes just 4 (four) seconds on my laptop — and that’s 4,041 (four thousand and forty one) pix!
This speed and efficiency — pre-loaded, don’t forget — makes Mac the platform of choice for this media person.
Shouldn’t retards be banned from the police force???
Isee 7up has been shooting PCP again. Your comments are the dribble of a vagrant walking across the streets of san francisco, talking to himself, arguing with himself, all alone.
Uggy Buggy…
Quote “In a free, capitalist society, people get the kind of PC they deserve.”
Err Free? Free as long as you pay. Free to choose a PC or shop at Wal-Mar… you only get to “choose” when you can afford to pay for it. Needs are susbsumed by the freedom to exploit. The only thing free in a capitalism is the ability to screw others.
Wow, only one other person here thought 7up was using sarcasm?!? I must be giving our fellow Mac-users way too much credit.
Here’s something I just thought of:
What if Apple included an easy way to install Windows when the user starts up their Mac for the first time?
It would be part of the set up process, and would make Windows on the Mac more appealing.
And while we don’t want the user to just run Windows, the sooner and quicker they’ll be able to use their Mac the way they’re comfortable with, the sooner they’ll start getting into the Mac side of things.
Nah, I’d rather have users install Windows the first time they run Boot Camp.
I would want them to fall in love with OS X first.
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What if Apple included an easy way to install Windows
Been there, done that. Apple includes an easy way to install Windows already.
Granted, not the first time the Mac boots up, but the first time you install BootCamp. With Leopard, the first time you’ll want to install another OS.