Comments on: No, your Mac is not better than a PC…

By: Michael Fielding

Michael Fielding — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:12:24 +0000

In fact, I hate to be the first comment to an agreement with Tim. When I go to buy a computer, I know that the builders are the most expensive way to go, so I create myself. Show me where you can do this with Apple? Sure, HP or Dell can be expensive for a workstation, but I know I can do myself and save 20-30% on price.

By: Tim Groeneveld

Tim Groeneveld — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:55:23 +0000

I am employed as a Linux developer. I don’t really do all that much with Windows.

By: Tim Groeneveld

Tim Groeneveld — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:54:19 +0000

Extreme, yes. It’s what I want, and I can do the exact same configuration (actually better) with a Mac. That is what the point of this post is.

By: Tim Groeneveld

Tim Groeneveld — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:53:42 +0000

I have said it once, and I will say it one more time: I own a Mac, and I love OS X. The one thing that boils me down and depresses me is the fact that it is just too expensive to own a Mac, unless you are to tinker with it. I thought the whole fact of owning a Mac was the point that you don’t need to tinker around to get things working like you do in Linux and Windows… the comments here telling me to ‘buy my own RAM and put it in’ and ‘you just have to try it’ and ‘it’s like a BMW vs Ford’ prooves that Apple Lovers just like the fact it’s a brand name…

When I buy a car, I am going to get any brand that gets me from A – Z. I don’t care about speed, nor (much) about fuel economy. I want something that works, and that works the way I want it to work.

By: Tim Groeneveld

Tim Groeneveld — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:50:10 +0000

I don’t have the money to buy a $11,000 machine, and I really don’t want to go deep into the Apple machine. For what everyone always says about Apple and how it’s easy to use etc, I should be able to buy a box pre-configured to what I want it to do. I obviously can not do this cheap enough with an Apple machine.

By: Tim Groeneveld

Tim Groeneveld — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:49:02 +0000

True, but they don’t have what I am looking for.

By: Tim Groeneveld

Tim Groeneveld — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:48:37 +0000

My machine is Apple labeled

By: Tim Groeneveld

Tim Groeneveld — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:48:06 +0000

I don’t really use Windows. I am a Linux developer. The only time I will go into Windows is to edit a video or two when I eventually get my cammera.

By: Tim Groeneveld

Tim Groeneveld — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:46:58 +0000

I do have one, I have an Apple Air, which I bought for $1,500. It has 2GB of (soldered on RAM) and no CD/DVD drive. I could have bought the same laptop as a PC with 4GB of RAM and a DVD drive *and* longer battery time for $1,300 (and I later did…)

By: Tim Groeneveld

Tim Groeneveld — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:44:58 +0000

These are not the features I am looking for Dru. If they were, I would be happy to pay $3,300. I want 4.5TB, I want 8GB of RAM, I *want* a DVB-T Digital card, I *want* a blu-ray burner. I Don’t care how many USB ports there are, I only use two, and they are in the back. I only want 1 CPU, I don’t want to be paying $90 a month in electricity. I want 5 drives, with 4.5TB of total storage on RAID 6. Show me these features for less then $3300 and I will retract my post.