Ask HN: Is it worth switching to a Mac?

Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching to a Mac? by mattmaroon on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @10:55PM (#392445)

I just looked on Apple.com, that was the starting rate for a Mac Pro. It was a beast though, with 2 Quad Cores. The rest of the specs were woefully unimpressive, but I guess it's like a Lexus where they know that if you're spending that much money, you'll have no problem ordering the upgrades, and they just put the base price there to lure you in.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching to a Mac? by chollida1 on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @10:42AM (#393022)

> I just looked on Apple.com, that was the starting rate for a Mac Pro.

Sorry, I was making a joke about the extra zero you had in the price. You had put $28,000 rather than $2,800:)

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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching to a Mac? by mattmaroon on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @11:18PM (#393946)

Ha. I guess that's if you get the solid state drive.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching to a Mac? by drwh0 on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @11:34PM (#392476)

you can buy an i7-based desktop from dell for $1300, WITH A 24 INCH MONITOR. the i7 is at a minimum more than 200% faster than the mac pro's processors. don't believe me, read tomshardware or anandtech

for $2800 you can get one of the dell gaming i7 boxes that is tricked out far beyond anything apple offers hardware wise, once again, a minimum of 200% performance improvement

the mac math once again does not hold up. and where is their snob appeal? they don't even have an i7 box on the market

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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth switching to a Mac? by timtrueman on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @01:05AM (#392553)

Clearly either Moore's Law has been broken or you're mistaken.

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