Comments on: Switching to Mac Without Going Broke http://www.pcmech.com/article/switching-to-mac-without-going-broke/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:07:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: David Risley http://www.pcmech.com/article/switching-to-mac-without-going-broke/comment-page-1/#comment-16202 David Risley Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:30:44 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=6832#comment-16202 I love your professionalism. Sheessh, dude. I love your professionalism. Sheessh, dude.

]]> By: Michael http://www.pcmech.com/article/switching-to-mac-without-going-broke/comment-page-1/#comment-16164 Michael Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:30:35 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=6832#comment-16164 Love how you don't even mention PowerMax. We're only one of the largest used macs resellers in America. Next time Google "used macs". Love how you don’t even mention PowerMax. We’re only one of the largest used macs resellers in America. Next time Google “used macs”.

]]> By: Alan David http://www.pcmech.com/article/switching-to-mac-without-going-broke/comment-page-1/#comment-11994 Alan David Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:22:25 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=6832#comment-11994 "But, retail PC to retail Mac (which they all are), the pricing of the Mac is on par for what you would pay for a similar quality machine on the Windows side of things." Ummmm....No. I recently found myself needing a top of the line laptop for times I am on location and the like. So I seriously considered a MacBook Pro. Until I saw the price...$3698 for the 17" MacBook Pro I wanted. Went to Dell...Inspiron 1720 with almost identical specs other than twice the harddrive capacity, a Blue-Ray burner, built-in bluetooth, and a 4 year warranty (as opposed to the AppleCare 3 yr) but otherwise fairly identical: $2664 shipped. Sure...I'll need to buy a copy of XP Pro and take the time to reformat the Inspiron harddrive to eradicate any/all indications of Vista. And the Inspiron comes in at about one pound heavier. But the bottom line is this: the Inspiron will run everything I need as fast and as well as the MacBook Pro and allow me to do a bit more than the MacBook Pro at 1/3 the savings. So you Macaphites can say all you want about retail Macs being comparable in price to a retail PC - but in truth that's not always the case. And I would wager that it's generally not the case. “But, retail PC to retail Mac (which they all are), the pricing of the Mac is on par for what you would pay for a similar quality machine on the Windows side of things.”

Ummmm….No. I recently found myself needing a top of the line laptop for times I am on location and the like. So I seriously considered a MacBook Pro. Until I saw the price…$3698 for the 17″ MacBook Pro I wanted. Went to Dell…Inspiron 1720 with almost identical specs other than twice the harddrive capacity, a Blue-Ray burner, built-in bluetooth, and a 4 year warranty (as opposed to the AppleCare 3 yr) but otherwise fairly identical: $2664 shipped. Sure…I’ll need to buy a copy of XP Pro and take the time to reformat the Inspiron harddrive to eradicate any/all indications of Vista. And the Inspiron comes in at about one pound heavier. But the bottom line is this: the Inspiron will run everything I need as fast and as well as the MacBook Pro and allow me to do a bit more than the MacBook Pro at 1/3 the savings.

So you Macaphites can say all you want about retail Macs being comparable in price to a retail PC – but in truth that’s not always the case. And I would wager that it’s generally not the case.

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