Wow.....hell has frozen over ;-) You speak the truth sir.
Sent from my iSomething On May 23, 2011, at 2:08 PM, "David W. Fenton" <lists.fin...@dfenton.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
