On Mar 4, 2004, at 12:57 PM, Bryan Murdock wrote: <snip>
In the end it just depends what your needs are then. If you want a
system for about $800 you can get a Mac or a PC. The Mac is all in one
box and all you can upgrade is your RAM and Harddrive (which is more
than I thought, cool), and you can plug anything else you need into a
Firewire port (hopefully). The PC you can open up, upgrade any
component you want, add a second NIC and turn it into a router down the
road, put in another CD-ROM if like, maybe toss the original monitor and
get a new one, and generally tweak to your hearts content. Just depends
on what you want.
Yep. I agree with you. Personally, I would buy neither the $800 PC or the $800 Mac. Why is that, you may ask? Because I, like Bryan, like to be able to have some flexibility. I would submit that although a $800 PC is more upgradeable than the $800 Mac, it's still not what I would want. A typical $800 PC from Dell has shared on-board video memory, integrated 10/100 Ethernet and sound, etc. If I want a PC, I will build my own with what I want for not much more than I would pay from Dell, and it will be quality stuff, with none of this shared video memory stuff. To get a nice pre-built machine from Dell, it's comparable cash to a nice entry-level PowerMac G5 (single processor 1.6 GHZ). So, what is the moral of the story? If you want something you can tweak to your hearts content, build your own PC (or Mac, for that matter). If you want something nice pre-built, go with a G5 or a nice Dell. If you want cheap, well, then go cheap. I'm waiting till the faster G5's (the ones in the new XServe's) come to the PowerMac and PowerBook lines before making any more hardware purchases.
Grant
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