New Power Mac still cheaper then Dell workstation in same configuation
Power Mac:
? Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25GHz w/167MHz system bus
? 512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM - 1 DIMM
? 120GB Ultra ATA drive
? Optical 1 - Apple SuperDrive
? Optical 2 - None
? ATI Radeon 9000 Pro dual-display w/64MB DDR
? 56K internal modem
? Apple Pro Keyboard - U.S. English
? Mac OS - U.S. English
price: 3299
Dell Workstation:
? Pentium 4, 2.5 ghz 533 mhz bus
? 512 mb ram
? 120 gb hard drive
? nVidia Quandro 4 700GXL 64 mb VGA/DVI dual display
? Dell video editing pack (to include firewire)
? XP proffessional
? DVD-R-WR drive + editing software
Price: 3373
Dell system does not have level 3 cache or multiple proccessors but it does have fasster system bus.
This shows that Dell markets their products as cheaper by including almost no ram and a tiny hard drive, but when you do an accurate comparison Apple is cheaper.
And of course this price difference does not include the huge amount of time and hassle save by using a Mac instead of a PC
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? Power Mac G4 Dual 1.25GHz w/167MHz system bus
? 512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM - 1 DIMM
? 120GB Ultra ATA drive
? Optical 1 - Apple SuperDrive
? Optical 2 - None
? ATI Radeon 9000 Pro dual-display w/64MB DDR
? 56K internal modem
? Apple Pro Keyboard - U.S. English
? Mac OS - U.S. English
price: 3299
Dell Workstation:
? Pentium 4, 2.5 ghz 533 mhz bus
? 512 mb ram
? 120 gb hard drive
? nVidia Quandro 4 700GXL 64 mb VGA/DVI dual display
? Dell video editing pack (to include firewire)
? XP proffessional
? DVD-R-WR drive + editing software
Price: 3373
Dell system does not have level 3 cache or multiple proccessors but it does have fasster system bus.
This shows that Dell markets their products as cheaper by including almost no ram and a tiny hard drive, but when you do an accurate comparison Apple is cheaper.
And of course this price difference does not include the huge amount of time and hassle save by using a Mac instead of a PC
[ 08-13-2002: Message edited by: jante99 ]
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Care to provide the link?
<strong>ohhh, i love it when moderators make a concise and articulate reponse to posts....g</strong><hr></blockquote>
Forgive him, he's been infiltrated by the dark side <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
<strong>You're full of crap.</strong><hr></blockquote>
How about you read the posting guidelines? You should PM him if you have a problem and not comment about him in the forum.
Moderators should eat their own dogfood
And don't say I should have priced out a home computer for comparision, the upper end Power Mac is priced like a workstation so it should be compared to one.