A response to "Premium-priced computer market dominated by Apple"
It is pretty sad when people are buying Macs cause it's "high end".
I know people who compare Macs to the "BMW's" of computers and a regular PC's as a "Toyota".
I will need to get a Mac soon unfortunately, because more and more people are using Final Cut Pro instead of Avid Media Composer. But when getting a Mac Pro is $2,499.00 and the cost of adding to 8 gb is additional $250, that's a bit too much.
A PC with an AMD Phenom II Quad Core 3.0ghz, and 8gb of ram costs about $900 and can do exactly what the $2,499.00 Mac Pro can do. And it only only costs about $50 for 8gb of ram at your local computer store.
I have used iLife before and the suite, while good, is targeted more for beginners. Most of the "Pro" apps (Photoshop, Premiere, Reason, Maya) are available on both Windows and Mac.
I wonder who write articles about premium price computers, cause in reality, it's more about who wants to buy and support overpriced computers.
I know people who compare Macs to the "BMW's" of computers and a regular PC's as a "Toyota".
I will need to get a Mac soon unfortunately, because more and more people are using Final Cut Pro instead of Avid Media Composer. But when getting a Mac Pro is $2,499.00 and the cost of adding to 8 gb is additional $250, that's a bit too much.
A PC with an AMD Phenom II Quad Core 3.0ghz, and 8gb of ram costs about $900 and can do exactly what the $2,499.00 Mac Pro can do. And it only only costs about $50 for 8gb of ram at your local computer store.
I have used iLife before and the suite, while good, is targeted more for beginners. Most of the "Pro" apps (Photoshop, Premiere, Reason, Maya) are available on both Windows and Mac.
I wonder who write articles about premium price computers, cause in reality, it's more about who wants to buy and support overpriced computers.
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Just a machine with 2.66GHz Core i7 920 quad or 3GHz Q9650 would be a start and shave off $600-700 from the entry Mac Pro price.
Shrink down the enclosure, only offer 2 HDD drive bays and 1 optical unit, possibly no PCI slots save for one the GPU is in and maybe they could push it down to $1500.
Even at that price, it's still 65% more expensive than a Phenom but I'd be happy to pay that premium for an Apple product.
Intel are discontinuing the i7 models out now in favor of Lynnfield but you can bet Apple will still choose to avoid giving Mac users good value products in favor of their own profit margins. I would agree that the word sad is a good word to describe it because they aren't obliged to change but when they push out great software and aesthetically and functionally well-designed hardware, to hold back decent hardware options is just a really poor way to treat a sizable consumer demographic.