dell vs. mac … so over the last couple of weeks i have heard a lot of times that macs are just too expensive, compare to macs. and that you can get a much cheaper pc. yes you can get a cheap pc that is true, but that cheap pc won’t compare to the mac you compare it to. so this morning i went to dell and just tried to build a dell computer that was comparable to the new quadcore imac. you can see the result in the screenshots … the dell came out at $1534 and the imac at $1999. there are a couple of caveats here … first off, that dell price is for a system that has a 24” screen, i couldn’t find a 27” quickly on the dell site (i ticked off large screen but they only go to 24” … don’t know why). also the system has an older quadcore processor, and the mac has a better graphics card. if you account for all of these three the price difference will be fairly small maybe $200. for that though you get a much better looking system that has one cable, is easy to set up, and runs mac os x :-)
so i think overall, with an apples to apple comparison the macs are not that much more expensive.
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