Doesn't matter what you're running it on, post along.
I compared all the major shops and architronic still was by far the cheapest. also education discounts madde very little difference back when they gave them, 20.- or so on a machine.
Why is it that everytime this subject comes up people try to compare Apple to homebrew and noname PCs?
You want to buy the machine without keyboard, RAM, mouse? Get a cheapo PC. Apple is not in this business to be a competition to the do-it-yourself PC shops. It really *IS* like comparing apples and oranges here. From Apple you get a finished product. THEY make sure that the drivers for the hardware inside will work, for example. From a PC assembler, you'll get a graphics card that needs a driver that might interfere with the driver needed for the soundcard. He'll happily sell you RAM that doesn't fit your motherboard if you don't know the specs.
Want to fiddle with your computer yourself? Go buy a PC. Install dozens of operating sytems and games, along with new hardware. Spend 70% of your time 'improving' your PC XPerience.
Or buy a Macintosh and get work done.
What I'm *really* interested in is whether the price difference between 1 GHz and 1.25 GHz is okay, or would I rather buy the cheaper version as BOTH machines are going to be slow by March.
depends on what buying strategy you follow: if you follow an "upgrade rarely, but heavily" strategy, it's probably ok, especially if you buy the RAM yourself (ie not in the Apple store) and choose the combo drive instead of the superdrive.
If you buy mcas on a regular basis, say every 2 years, the DP 1GHz is probably the better deal, even more so the DP 1GHz SDR, which is now probably cheaper than the DP 1GHz DDR, while offering +/- the same performance for most tasks.
I've had my old beige g3 for more than 4.5 years before buying this machine, so I count myself to the first kind of users.
Yes, and keep that hardware configuration forever. You don't have a clue. Upgrades are just as painful on a Mac as on a PC. You either have to pay a premium or study compatibility reports all day long at xlr8yourmac. And after that, you have to download a firmware update which can't be applied on a Mac... Look, I really like OS X, but it's certainly not much better than Windows as far as compatibility is concerned.
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I compared all the major shops and architronic still was by far the cheapest. also education discounts madde very little difference back when they gave them, 20.- or so on a machine.
As for the switching: sorry I misunderstood that.
gotta go, bbl,
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You want to buy the machine without keyboard, RAM, mouse? Get a cheapo PC. Apple is not in this business to be a competition to the do-it-yourself PC shops. It really *IS* like comparing apples and oranges here. From Apple you get a finished product. THEY make sure that the drivers for the hardware inside will work, for example. From a PC assembler, you'll get a graphics card that needs a driver that might interfere with the driver needed for the soundcard. He'll happily sell you RAM that doesn't fit your motherboard if you don't know the specs.
Want to fiddle with your computer yourself? Go buy a PC. Install dozens of operating sytems and games, along with new hardware. Spend 70% of your time 'improving' your PC XPerience.
Or buy a Macintosh and get work done.
What I'm *really* interested in is whether the price difference between 1 GHz and 1.25 GHz is okay, or would I rather buy the cheaper version as BOTH machines are going to be slow by March.
If you buy mcas on a regular basis, say every 2 years, the DP 1GHz is probably the better deal, even more so the DP 1GHz SDR, which is now probably cheaper than the DP 1GHz DDR, while offering +/- the same performance for most tasks.
I've had my old beige g3 for more than 4.5 years before buying this machine, so I count myself to the first kind of users.
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<strong>Or buy a Macintosh and get work done.
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Yes, and keep that hardware configuration forever. You don't have a clue. Upgrades are just as painful on a Mac as on a PC. You either have to pay a premium or study compatibility reports all day long at xlr8yourmac. And after that, you have to download a firmware update which can't be applied on a Mac... Look, I really like OS X, but it's certainly not much better than Windows as far as compatibility is concerned.
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<strong>He'll happily sell you RAM that doesn't fit your motherboard if you don't know the specs.
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How about having to sell 768 MB of highest quality CL-2 RAM (Infineon) after applying Apple's famous 4.1.8 firmware update?
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