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Are some Apple PCs priceworthy?
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: bloody000 on August 19, 2011, 06:51:42 AM ---No shit Sherlock. I never knew building my own computer is cheaper than paying for someone else to do it for me. I might need to look into cooking at home instead of eating out.
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It takes 5 minutes for a trained monkey to install a hard drive. Are you saying that 150 bucks goes to cover his salary for those 5 minutes? If that is the case, then I want that job.
bloody000:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on August 19, 2011, 06:14:46 PM ---
--- Quote from: bloody000 on August 19, 2011, 06:51:42 AM ---No shit Sherlock. I never knew building my own computer is cheaper than paying for someone else to do it for me. I might need to look into cooking at home instead of eating out.
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It takes 5 minutes for a trained monkey to install a hard drive. Are you saying that 150 bucks goes to cover his salary for those 5 minutes? If that is the case, then I want that job.
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HP, Dell and Apple can charge you however they like because this is the so called "pro/enterprise" market where you can sell D-sized alkaline cells for 10 dollars each just because it came with phone support. Last night I started a thread about HP quiting the low-margin consumer market.
Gamerzhell:
--- Quote from: bloody000 on August 19, 2011, 08:41:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on August 19, 2011, 06:14:46 PM ---
--- Quote from: bloody000 on August 19, 2011, 06:51:42 AM ---No shit Sherlock. I never knew building my own computer is cheaper than paying for someone else to do it for me. I might need to look into cooking at home instead of eating out.
--- End quote ---
It takes 5 minutes for a trained monkey to install a hard drive. Are you saying that 150 bucks goes to cover his salary for those 5 minutes? If that is the case, then I want that job.
--- End quote ---
HP, Dell and Apple can charge you however they like because this is the so called "pro/enterprise" market where you can sell D-sized alkaline cells for 10 dollars each just because it came with phone support. Last night I started a thread about HP quiting the low-margin consumer market.
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Apple products are really only for personal use, you don't see many large corporations running server farms of mac pros now do you? Apple products are not comparable to workstations since they are designed for different things. "phone support" is the upper bounds of what Apple offers. HP/Dell offer onsite support which is very very important in this market.
bloody000:
Why would one build server farms with workstations in the first place? That's what racks are for.
Really, workstations are used mostly in personal studios, small businesses or dev offices of large companies. A small business is about the only thing I can think of that benefits a lot from onsite support. Large companies have their own IT dept. and soho can just take it to a service provider. If one really want onsite support one can pay for AppleCare. No, it's not included in the price but hey at least Apple only asks 5k for a 12-core machine vs HP asking for over 5.6k for the same specs.
metro.:
First off, Mac's started out great, I won't deny that. And iPod's are still the most dominant and probably best music players out there.
Check this out http://thenextweb.com/apple/files/2010/09/mac01.jpg and read on.
However, I hate Macs, with a serious and burning passion for a few reason
1. Looks are trying too hard to be "new age"
2. Stupid over priced with very little room for custom work or upgrades
3. Cheaper to build a Hackintosh, and usally better
4. Apple support sucks
5. Wanna play games? Too fucking bad.
6. New OS is total crap, trying to be like an iPad, only there's not touch screen.
7. Finally, most importantly, hipsters have them, don't be a hipster.
So in answer to the topic name, no, never.
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