On 4 Sep 2006, at 3:05AM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 4 Sep 2006 at 2:49, William T Goodall wrote:
On 4 Sep 2006, at 2:27AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote:
Andrew Crystall wrote:
A low-end Mac Pro will cost you $2,124 compared with $3,071 for a
In America. For one specific model. And with a very expensive
Windows
PC make for comparison. And without similar options for warranty,
etc.
Here in Brazil it's even worse. A Mac costs about twice as much
as the equivalent PC-cum-Windoze.
But that's a short sighted view. The Mac is much cheaper in the long
term. I recently retired an old Mac still in working order, that was
nearly ten years old. Ten years of useful life!
Reliable technical sources available on the internet confirm that a
Windows PC connected to the internet is filled with backdoors,
trojans, key-loggers and other malware in ten minutes. Ten minutes of
useful life!
Thus even if a Mac cost $100,000 and a PC only $1 over the course of
ten years the Mac would work out cheaper! Still only $100,000 whereas
you'd need over $500,000 worth of PCs!
Comparisons Maru
Yes, if you're a blithering retard, as apparently you are. There are
no other words for it.
Let's see, on one hand you're comparing the length a machine can run
without breaking down, which is based largely on build quality.
Moreover, that mac largely is a sealed box, and you can't upgrade
parts, etc.
I upgraded the RAM and HD in a 1999 iMac last week. I've added RAM,
hard drives, USB cards, 802.11 networking cards and whatnot to a wide
variety of desktop and laptop Macs over the years. The original iMacs
are a bit of a pain - took me 40 minutes start to finish the first
time I opened one up - but most are < 5 minutes.
On the other hand, you're comparing the time a computer can be
connected to the internet, entire unprotected, before it picks up
nastyware. Which a variety of free firewalls and virus scanners
protect against.
But most people aren't non-technophiles like you and don't know how
to protect themselves against malicious intrusions. And a computer
that's part of a botnet launching DoS attacks and mailing millions of
spams out through its unknowing owner's cable or DSL connection is
very far from useful.
More useful Maru
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