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<blockquote data-quote="Amen-Moses" data-source="post: 171985" data-attributes="member: 114">Well this subject keeps coming up and the last time it did my 2 year old twin G5 PM was dissed by the PC crowd who claimed I could buy a better (i.e more powerful) Pc for far less money.Now it is two years later and CreativeMac have just reported on their benchmarking of the quad G5 system, the only PC that came close was the HP quad Opteron system so I did a price comparison (very much like I did last time) and here are the results:Quad G5 from Apple: $5500HP Quad Opteron: $8500Both with exactly the same graphics, ram and HD configuration. (in actual fact the G5 has faster RAM but that has little impact in real life)The main difference between them is that the PC does not come with any software to compare with iLife.So again (at least at the top end) the PC solution is more expensive, far less useful and in some benchmarks far slower than the G5 solution.Amen-Moses</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Amen-Moses, post: 171985, member: 114"] Well this subject keeps coming up and the last time it did my 2 year old twin G5 PM was dissed by the PC crowd who claimed I could buy a better (i.e more powerful) Pc for far less money. Now it is two years later and CreativeMac have just reported on their benchmarking of the quad G5 system, the only PC that came close was the HP quad Opteron system so I did a price comparison (very much like I did last time) and here are the results: Quad G5 from Apple: $5500 HP Quad Opteron: $8500 Both with exactly the same graphics, ram and HD configuration. (in actual fact the G5 has faster RAM but that has little impact in real life) The main difference between them is that the PC does not come with any software to compare with iLife. So again (at least at the top end) the PC solution is more expensive, far less useful and in some benchmarks far slower than the G5 solution. Amen-Moses [/QUOTE]

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