@ CanwllCorfe
I wouldn't mind reading the article and trying to explain you why it's not true.
But I can tell you this;
When you go to apple.nl and you choose a Mac Mini, it comes with 2GB of memory, stock. You can expand this memory to 8GB for 300 euro's (which is about 425 dollars). Got that/ Good.
Now when I go to a computer shop and I buy the same (exactly the same! Will work in your mac just fine) 6GB of memory without an apple logo on it, it will set me back 70 euro's (about 100 dollars). Apple uses the same memory and makes you pay THREE TIMES as much.
Right, got that?
Now, the Mac Mini itself.
It's a 2.66ghz Intel Core2Duo processor with a 320GB Harddisk and 2GB's of memory, standard. Which is a bit sad to begin with as this hardware is about 4 years old. They still sell it as new, but it's really old crap. Sets you back 835 euro's.
Right, here we go.
Intel Core2Duo Processor, 320GB harddisk, 2GB of memory. 2.96 (cannot find the 2.66 anymore, it's just too old) ghz Core2duo processor, power supply, casing, Asus mainboard, DVD drive.
Right. So I had to make a PC that's a bit faster than the mac, as the processor of the Mac is just too old, right?
The price? 300 euro's.
So that's 835 euro's versus 300 euro's.
Or 1150 dollars versus 426 dollars for about the same stuff.
If I want 8GB of memory in my PC, it will become about 60 euro's more expensive.
If I want 8GB of memory in my mac, it will become 300 euro's more expensive...
If I want a 1TB hard drive drive in my Mac... Oh wait, I can't.
Well, 500GB then, it will be 50 euro's more expensive, 500gb drive in my PC, it will become 3 (yes, three) euro's more expensive...
You don't have to understand a thing of what I'm saying.
But please understand it when I say 'what the hell are they thinking at apple?'.
And it's not like their hardware is any better. Seagate harddisks, just like in PC's, nvidia videochips, just like in pc's, foxconn connectors, just like in PC's.
You really pay for a lot of... Nothing.
And I don't mind if anyone prefers a mac, but I just cannot see why it has to be so expensive. If a Mac Mini costs what it is worth, let's say between 300 and 400 dollars, I'd buy one. Just because it's the coolest looking thing ever.
For the money a Mac Mini costs I can build a PC out of a-spec parts that has the same specs as a 2000 euro PowerPC.
I have the feeling there's two things that keep apple alive
1. The idea that a mac works better with some audio/video/photo editing software
2. All those scared people that are afraid of trying stuff themselves and don't mind paying two or three times as much so they don't have to think about how their PC works. And that's fine. I just hope no one expects this poor ****er to understand
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