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Originally Posted by glypo
Okay I wasn't going to reply to this thread again, but I have to now. It's amazing what crap you can read online sometimes. Andy I'm sorry, but almost everything you said is incorrect.
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Look, i'm not going to get into anything silly here, I stand by what I said. As for the Bill gates stuff, I was referring to the GUI / mouse etc (I know everyone robbed this from Xerox before you mention it, but apple saw it's potential when no-one else did).
On the cost issue, I quickly looked on scan's website to price up the Xeon chips in the Mac Pro, and the Mac Pro has 2 of these puppies !
Here's the link...
http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductID=778002
£534.24 including Vat...each, which is £1068.48 in my book just for the same processors that are in the mac. Now i'm not shopping around here, but I did a while ago for a decent rendering / 3d workstation and like for like, the apple kit is cheaper.
Tom's hardare (good site if you don't know it) did a comparison, trying to build a machine to kind of Mac Pro spec, bearing in mind you would need to build this yourself and they went for as cheap gear as possible, here's the link.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ta,1985-2.html
Macs at Pixar anyone ?
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/05/10.12.shtml
Now i'm not anti PC, i've used both platforms from way back, so I speak from experience and my opinion is based on user experience. Mac's are the way forward for anyone wanting a computer / software that just works without needed an IT degree.
Now I too will say no more, this is an RC forum after all
Glypo, i'm assuming you specced up the Intel Core 2 Quads (not the Quad Xeons) as to the best of my knowledge these are not configurable in a dual CPU system ?
On the other hand, if i'm wrong, please post a link to where I can get my amazingly cheap system !
Hell the guy who started this thread went for a Mac Laptop anyway, so this is pretty pointless