On 23 May 2011 at 13:53, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > But that's no a real good point. You then have several boat anchors > (ie old hardware) around, plus you have all the migration problems of > getting your old files and software to new machines.
Eric and I hardly ever agree on anything at all, but on this one, I'm with him 100%. The fact is, the "Apple hardware is more expensive" canard is a COMPLETE MYTH, and it has been for well over a decade. The reason it persists is because Apple doesn't sell low-end products. It configures all of its products so that they perform well. This means that there is nothing comparable to the $300 PCs in Apple's product line. But you're not getting the same thing for $300 that you would if you pad $800 for a Mac -- if you configured a Windows PC with comparable specifications as the $800 Mac, it will cost about $800, too (and in many cases, it will cost MORE). Secondly, the point about changing machines often is one that too many people vastly underrate. You're much better off spending $1500 every 6 years than you are spending $300 three times during the same time period. You may think you're sayving a huge amount of money, but instead, you're getting a poorly performing machine that was way back in the pack performance-wise when you bought it (and likely last year's model, anyway), and it will be wheezing under the requirements placed on it in a couple of years. You can get a 5-year PC for $1000 if you have modest computing needs, but for $1500, you can get a machine that will long outlast 5 years (I have clients retiring 8-year-old machines, for instance). The price point used to be $2000, but it's come down to $1500 in the last few years. But anybody who says Macs are more expensive than PCs hasn't ever actually sat down and tried to do a real 1:1 comparison between a Mac and a PC configured with the same peripherals, RAM, etc. When you do that, you find out that Macs are actually quite a good value. And you learn to stay away from the low-end PC junk. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
