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Loaded question: low-end Mac...or high-end PC?
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<blockquote data-quote="RavingMac" data-source="post: 1202130" data-attributes="member: 45350"><p>I am naturally cheap . . . I could use the more polite term and call myself 'frugal', but the reality is I tend to search and figure and refigure trying to get the biggest bang for the least bucks.</p><p></p><p>Having said that, I am getting better. After years of underbuying as a result of trying to go cheap I am finally learning that it is usually a better bargain and cheaper in the long run to buy what I really want.</p><p></p><p>I resisted for years getting a Mac because of the cost. I spent a half year on a Linux machine because of wanting the Mac but not being willing to pay for it. Linux is great, but not what I want to live with long term. So, finally, several years ago I bit the bullet and went for the cheapest, bottomline, plain vanilla MacBook I could buy, figuring at the worst I would be out the ~$500 cost difference between it and an equivalent Windows Laptop.</p><p></p><p>This is what happened:</p><p>1) I loved it. Even with the bottom rung MacBook the performance was great and even today would meet all of my needs (pretty similar as I have said before to those you list)</p><p>2) I lost it. Every PC I had ever owned I had dutifully set up a user account for my wife--which she never used. Six months into owning my first MacBook I had to buy another--for myself</p><p>3) I have since traded up to a 15in MBP (mainly for the larger screen for Photo viewing and editing) not because I needed the added performance</p><p></p><p>I totally understand the lust to have the fastest and highest spec'd machine on the block. I also know that I can't afford all that I would like to have.</p><p></p><p>Bottomline: Apple has a generous return policy. My reccomendation is buy as close to what you really want as possible (I would still go with the 27in refurb over the higher spec'd 21in--but that's me) and if you find out it really isn't what you thought it would be, return it and build your mega-zoom-ultra PC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RavingMac, post: 1202130, member: 45350"] I am naturally cheap . . . I could use the more polite term and call myself 'frugal', but the reality is I tend to search and figure and refigure trying to get the biggest bang for the least bucks. Having said that, I am getting better. After years of underbuying as a result of trying to go cheap I am finally learning that it is usually a better bargain and cheaper in the long run to buy what I really want. I resisted for years getting a Mac because of the cost. I spent a half year on a Linux machine because of wanting the Mac but not being willing to pay for it. Linux is great, but not what I want to live with long term. So, finally, several years ago I bit the bullet and went for the cheapest, bottomline, plain vanilla MacBook I could buy, figuring at the worst I would be out the ~$500 cost difference between it and an equivalent Windows Laptop. This is what happened: 1) I loved it. Even with the bottom rung MacBook the performance was great and even today would meet all of my needs (pretty similar as I have said before to those you list) 2) I lost it. Every PC I had ever owned I had dutifully set up a user account for my wife--which she never used. Six months into owning my first MacBook I had to buy another--for myself 3) I have since traded up to a 15in MBP (mainly for the larger screen for Photo viewing and editing) not because I needed the added performance I totally understand the lust to have the fastest and highest spec'd machine on the block. I also know that I can't afford all that I would like to have. Bottomline: Apple has a generous return policy. My reccomendation is buy as close to what you really want as possible (I would still go with the 27in refurb over the higher spec'd 21in--but that's me) and if you find out it really isn't what you thought it would be, return it and build your mega-zoom-ultra PC. [/QUOTE]
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