March 2nd, 2009, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by pullmyfoot My thoughts exactly  . It looks like more and more people are starting to get the same idea. And I hate the way the Mac desktops look. They dont like like, well, I dunno. You cant tinker inside them  | Yeah, but how much tinkering do you need to do when you have 2 quad core cpus and 16gb of RAM? Though I haven't really understood why apple goes overboard on the ram and cpu, but low balls it as far as graphics (maybe it's the no games for macs problem). But then again, I figure I could put together a pretty snazzy pc for $2800 .
Yes you can run windows in bootcamp to run games, but for one, like I said before, the trackpad doesn't work right, so you have to have an extra mouse (I say extra because the multi-touch-pad in mac os works so well I don't even want a mouse). And the other thing is that it is a pain in the ass to switch back and forth. Part of that is because file paths get screwed up, or maybe your productivity suite is in mac os, not windows, or vice-a-versa (though again, if you are going to be using windows most often, then something like a higher end sony or lenovo might do better).
Edit: Looking at the mac pro page, for $2800 you get two 2.8 xeon quads, but only 2gb ram, and one 320gb hdd, and a radeon 2600xt.
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