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Originally Posted by alferret
Mac=Doorstop 
What I don't understand, and this may be my ignorance buy why pay twice the price for good styling? Is it really worth paying all that extra just to have something that looks nice sitting in your home rather than a grands worth of PC in a vanilla box
Look at the rip off prices at the apple store for component upgrades, they want to charge £240 for a 1tb SATA II drive, that's a whopping £160 more than the street price. 8gb ram is £200 extra over the 3gb installed and the street price is, £104. £80 for a slot loading dvd writer, that's £60 more than the street price.
I could go on but fear retribution from Mac fan-boys 
In all honesty can anyone really warrant spending the best part of 2 grand on a mac? |
On the other hand, for the 98% of the population who wouldn't know were to start when upgrading, and have no interest in learning, Macs are perfect. As they are for people who want to edit video or sound/music.
It's swings and roundabouts. Yes, the PC is more readily and cheaply expandable, but depending on the quality of drivers, it may or may not be easy to upgrade. Even if the device is marked as Windows compatible, the drivers may not work reliably or be for a different version of Windows.
The mac on the other hand is a lot easier. Nine times out of ten, you just plug the device in and it works. OK, so you may need to run an installation program, but that can be a case of double clicking an icon and possibly going through a wizard.
And yes, I am an experienced user of *both* platforms. In fact, both desktops I have are entirely self built, and the one I am on now has been rebuilt several times (I actually don't know how many because I did it bit by bit, but I know it's had at lease two power supplies, 3 cpus, several memory upgrades, 3 graphics cards, 3 motherboards and God knows how many storage devices).