Hey, my friend is convinced that Mac's are better than PC. I have already told him that that is SO wrong, and that PC is better, They're cheaper, can play more games, are compatible with more software, and are a better deal than Mac's. Anyone else got anything I can through at him? Both of you are partially correct. Macs are more expensive, but also queiter than ANY PC unless you build your own or spend a lot of money for a custom job. Mac Pros or Imacs can also run 'way MORE' software.
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You have your Mac apps, then you buy a copy of windows OEM (hundred bucks.) and use bootcamp to run ALL windows software. When I say ALL of it, I mean literally ALL windows software. The whole, 'They Cannot game' is BS, I played BF3 on high on my 2 year old IMAC with 5750m. The whole system drew 200 watts on load and was extremely quiet while playing and silent ALL the rest of the time. There Are couple of things to consider however, If you get the lower end ones, they suck for gaming.
The whole point is to get you to buy the 27' with the good GPU in it, that said, it is a good idea since it wont be upgradeable. They do cost more initially too, but you get quiet and they are hassle free generally and don't do weird things like hang when booting or get weird errors.
It's a trade off between cost vs features and the tradeoff of hassle free vs customizing. Just to be fair, I just Sold my imac in January for 1,450 paid 2400 for all of it 2 years ago, but got a lot of extra stuff which I've kept. I took that money and built a new pc because I wanted something as quiet as my IMAC while being more powerful. That is not as cheap to do as you would think since the new IMACS are really stupid fast!
I wanted a 680 and SSD is why I sold mine. To get what I wanted AND have it quiet, I spent about 3200 on the components anyhow. That is with a lower cost IPS monitor (a 24') too. Had I really sat down and figured out what I was going to spend (I just wanted to build something kick ass), I woulda just bought an Imac for 3000, spent a 100 bucks on windows and a hundred on the extended applecare warranty which covers everything for 3 years! That and this box takes up a crapload more space. My imac was a 2.93 27' with 5750m, my new system is a standard PC, with Maximus V Formula, 32 gigs, 840 pro x 2, Asus gtx 680 and Seasonic Platinum 750.
'but you get quiet and they are hassle free generally and don't do weird things like hang when booting or get weird errors.' Most normal desktop PCs are quiet unless they are really crappy PCs with noisy fans.
Are you saying macs don't hand or get weird errors, last time I checked they also do too. You spent ' 3200' on components to get it quiet quiet-what? I could build a super quiet mini-itx system that's better than most macs for less than 3200. I do agree macs are generally easy to use and don't have very many problems overall, but really, they are not worth it.
They are way to much of a closed eco-system. The cost of having mac is ridiculous with the initial cost, warranties, repair costs, etc. Oh lord, flame war incoming With the software compatibility, you cant claim Mac's run everything because you can pay an extra $100 to install Windows on to your Apple Machine. Half the point of Mac's is the OSX operating system, by removing that you might as well just have built a PC in the first place. Also, we could say that as well if we wanted. Look up 'Hackintosh' if you have the time. The iMac's silence is directly tied into its low power consumption.
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Less power consumption, less heat to dissipate. I imagine iMac's use the chassis as a heatsink.
But then again, when iMac's are effectively laptops in a bigger case, you can get away with doing that. Your really going to try and convince us that low end laptop graphics can max out games? Which explains why you have a 680 in your PC. How is that PC standard. I get the same thing from a couple of friends who only just recently started playing with computers.