With it now trivial to install Mac OS X on a PC, you’re paying over a grand for that Apple logo with its prettier facade and better support. Is that extra $1,000+ worth it? For some, it might be. For me, I’m poor.
Read the linked article’s comments, as the Mac fanboys are out in force.
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I don’t want to sound like a fanboy but any Mac that I have worked with over the past 8 years has been rock solid and chances are the hardware is still running today. When I look at purchasing a machine, person experience has shown me they last forever, as long as they don’t break.
I hate to sound “enterprise” as I hate that word, but so far the TCO of Macs for us have been extremely low in comparison to Dell’s & Beige boxes over about a 5 year sample. I’m talking a 4 to 1 ratio for administration costs, a 3 to 1 ratio for software costs and about a 20% replacement rate for Dell’s when the apple machines are at about 4%.
We (and Jake knows what I mean by we) have been using some of the oldest OS9 era Macs out there putting out products to this day and OS9 was/is/always will be a s–t OS. Show me a first-gen XP machine still in use in a small-med sized business.
I can say the same for the Sun machines I have touched/administered (v440 & v210) and some models of HP rack mount servers. They just run… assuming of course they are not on windows (which is a topic deserving a post all its own).
im paying a grand for 100% uptime, that happens to have an apple logo
if you’re good enough to build it yourself, then you probably have the expertise to recognize reliable vendors for your parts, as well as the know how to do things right the first time so it doesn’t break. bottom line, if you can build it yourself, you pay for the convenience of being able to blame someone else if it goes terribly wrong and not having to handle the situation yourself.