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Help me fight the relapse! Intend to buy Mac, Tempted to buy PC!
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<blockquote data-quote="the8thark" data-source="post: 537412" data-attributes="member: 26315"><p>With the info the original poster gave I would probably go for an imac or macbook. Why? Well unless the person is a mad gamer and needs every bit of video ram power I say the mac is better value for money. For all the reasons said above + plus one extra one. I think the mac has a longer lifespan than the average PC. For me after 2-3 years PC's tend not to be able to run the most current programs without upgrades. And Macs can run them with a 5 year old machine. Sure that machine won't run them as good as the new mac but it still will do the job.</p><p></p><p>I believe buying a new computer is an investment. And you have to think will it satisfy your needs now as well as a few years into the future. Also who knows in the next MS OS will run on your machine. There's no guarantee. But with Apple they always try to make all their systems as backwards compatible as possible. Cause macs on the whole (apart from the mac pro which we're not talking about here) is mostly not upgradeable. But you don't need to upgrade them. On the whole they just work.</p><p></p><p>And as my last word, as they say in business time is money. And would you pay that little extra money to make your every day life easier and all your computing tasks that much easier and quicker to do. I think most people would. In your case you're paying a little extra cash for the convenience of a in my opinion a better machine. And if you don't like it, you always have the option of using the macbook as a mostly windows machine if you don't like OS X. But if you get the Dell you're stuck with windows and have no opportunity to use OS X.</p><p></p><p>Also you'll save a little money if you get only the minimum ram for the mac of your choosing and get the rest you require from a 3rd party store. Much cheaper and so easy to install yourself and not voiding your warranty.</p><p></p><p>What's the graphics card like in the Dell?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the8thark, post: 537412, member: 26315"] With the info the original poster gave I would probably go for an imac or macbook. Why? Well unless the person is a mad gamer and needs every bit of video ram power I say the mac is better value for money. For all the reasons said above + plus one extra one. I think the mac has a longer lifespan than the average PC. For me after 2-3 years PC's tend not to be able to run the most current programs without upgrades. And Macs can run them with a 5 year old machine. Sure that machine won't run them as good as the new mac but it still will do the job. I believe buying a new computer is an investment. And you have to think will it satisfy your needs now as well as a few years into the future. Also who knows in the next MS OS will run on your machine. There's no guarantee. But with Apple they always try to make all their systems as backwards compatible as possible. Cause macs on the whole (apart from the mac pro which we're not talking about here) is mostly not upgradeable. But you don't need to upgrade them. On the whole they just work. And as my last word, as they say in business time is money. And would you pay that little extra money to make your every day life easier and all your computing tasks that much easier and quicker to do. I think most people would. In your case you're paying a little extra cash for the convenience of a in my opinion a better machine. And if you don't like it, you always have the option of using the macbook as a mostly windows machine if you don't like OS X. But if you get the Dell you're stuck with windows and have no opportunity to use OS X. Also you'll save a little money if you get only the minimum ram for the mac of your choosing and get the rest you require from a 3rd party store. Much cheaper and so easy to install yourself and not voiding your warranty. What's the graphics card like in the Dell? [/QUOTE]
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