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By: Feb. Mac Sales: Insanely Not Great | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:11:16 +0000

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Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:21:05 +0000

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By: Points Off For Windows? | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:00:52 +0000

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By: Michael Long

Michael Long — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:48:54 +0000

Dave,

1) Go price any PC workstation with server-class Quad-Core Xeon processors and get back to me.

2) Go price a “mini” sized system with Core 2 Duos and make sure it has DDR3 RAM and a 1066MHz front-side bus.

Most people who complain about “expensive” Apple computers aren’t looking under the hood, and aren’t comparing apples to Apples.

By: Eric Welch

Eric Welch — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:26:54 +0000

Yep, the Mac Pro is way overpriced, if all you want to do is play Solitaire, cruise the web, and check your Facebook friends for the umpteenth time.

When I work up a 120 meg file from my 21 megapixel EOS 5D Mark II, and create a panorama, or an animation from 15 pictures in a PSD file, the file size is nearly a gigabyte. Let me tell you, the Mac Pro is a bargain when that kind of horsepower is required.

That $200 Dell would choke. And if I were to buy a comparable Dell (if and when they come out with Nehalem Xeon processors, at this point, the Mac Pro is the only option) it will cost $600 to $1000 more than the Mac Pro for the same specs if history says anything about it.

If you can’t see the value of spending more, you don’t need it.

By: Tom Burton

Tom Burton — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:14:24 +0000

Oh, how I wish your price for the MacPro 8-core 2.93GHz were true! Mathematica is wiping the floor with my venerable G4 duo. I need to upgrade. Apple’s site says that $3299 gets me 8 cores @ 2.26GHz. They want a whopping $2600 more for 2.93GHz! Mathematica version 7 would make pretty good use of 8 cores, so I might go with 8@2.26. The disgusting thing about that would be that my old laptop might run some apps faster.

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By: Say Ooi

Say Ooi — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:51:55 +0000

Still pretty expensive. I could get a very fast used DELL with very nice video card, large memory, etc.. for less than $200 with all the melt-down of businesses nowadays. They all come from large companies like Morgan Stanley etc..

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By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:38:18 +0000

1. The Mac Pro is way over-priced.
2. The Mini is over-priced or under-powered, your choice.
3. The iMac is perfect.

And, no, I don’t want to be sued for copyright infringement by the author of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”.