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Quote: Originally posted by iDave Wow, I'm so happy to see your last paragraph. Maybe Apple hasn't missed their "target consumer" after all. As for RAM, I think Apple's 512MB upgrade at $75 is very reasonable. It gives buyers a very usable com…
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Quote: Originally posted by Amorph Besides, I'd wager that a lot of PCs have about 256MB, and XP doesn't exactly thrive in that amount of RAM (although it's not horrible either, in my experience). It'll do. Man, you'd lose a lot on money mak…
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Quote: Originally posted by steve666 I actually agree with you on this point-this isn't a gamers machine. It would have been a nice option, but video cards rarely get upgraded by the average consumer. The PM G5 is a gamers machine. OK, tha…
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Quote: Originally posted by lundy For the Love of All Things Holy, would you people please stop chanting about upgrading the damn video card. Is that written above some locker room where PCers go to work out or something? I swear they all say the…
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Quote: Originally posted by steve666 They are trying to sell to customers that are used to buying things the PC way. They will price compare. They will say, how can they sell a computer without a mouse and keyboard? Why cant I just add RAM mysel…
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Quote: Originally posted by dferigmu Powermac 1.6GHz G5 256MB DDR333 SDRAM 80GB HD NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 4X SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) $1,799.00 vs. Dell Dimension 8300 Pentium 4 3GHz 256MB DDR SDRAM 80GB Hard Drive 8x D…
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Quote: Originally posted by fuzz_ball Good news! Well it turns out my wife and I got all worked up for nothing. Her boss (who has been AWOL all week) finally returned my wife's calls. She reassured my wife that while phase one of the "paper…
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I bet if you pressed for the reasons, you'd find that the requirement to have a Windows PC is arbitrary and unfounded, unless they want to install some sort of spyware on your system.
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Quote: Originally posted by CosmoNut I think a lot of people also have no interest in Macs because they think that they're still a specialized product that can't run Office (or that Office for Mac is incompatible with the PC version) and that Mac…
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Quote: Originally posted by pscates Those actually all sound pretty good and on-the-mark, IMO. A little of all of them, actually. But you're going to get dinged for the "hippies and fags" thing, I can tell you right now. There are a few people…
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I don't own a Mac yet, but... Consoles are the easiest to write games for. The programmers don't have to worry about legacy hardware or OS's that date back to the stone-age, and the target platform is pretty much cast in stone as far as what's in…
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Quote: Originally posted by Tuttle The Microsoft 'party line' of 'it's your own damn fault for getting infected with spyware/viruses' isn't playing very well with the public. Actually, it *IS* their own damn fault because Microsoft has lulled…
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There are several reasons why more people don't switch (and this is from someone that has almost no concrete knowledge about the newest Macs, and doesn't even own a Mac yet): 1) The advertising for Apple stinks or is almost non-existant. I have …
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Maybe they should name it after fighter planes, like... Spitfire Hurricane Thunderbolt Bearcat Corsair Mustang Sabre Tomcat Eagle Hornet ...or snakes... Constrictor Viper Cottonmouth Rattlesnake Cobra Mamba
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I can provide a point of view from an existing PC user who builds his own systems, but that wants to buy a PowerMac G5... I've been building my own PC systems since the mid-80's. When you do it this way, you are guaranteed that the quality of th…