Apple suggests Mac users to install antivirus software

[steven787]

goddog said:

steven787 said:
That was the price in November 06, PCs constantly drop in price as new chips come out. And if the Macbook had a Extreme that makes it even more lopsided. The point: it was out of what they tested and the testing methods were not standardized.

 

well compareing it to just those units would, but they said ever tested, up to that time... so that would be every other laptop pc unit that went through there tests. 

 

I did some digging on the chip, and at the time it was not the extreme, but was an early release (when it first came out that summer) of a higher clocked chip

and yes i do know they drop (well pcs generally do macs dont until a refresh so buy when it first comes out or wait for a refresh), i was just commenting on your choice of units to compare.

 

I didn't choose them, those are the two that they were comparing.

 

I would choose these two to demonstrate the problem.  One is a gaming PC, the other is a production PC.  Apple just doesn't make high end performance for gamers. (I only included prices for a reference, when you're in the high end a couple thousand bucks isn't that big of a deal)

Alienware

Intel® Core™ i7-965 Extreme 3.2 GHz 8MB Cache  

Dual 2GB GDDR5 ATI® Radeon® HD 4870 X2 with CrossFireX™ and Quad GPU Technology
PC GAMER Editors' Choice Award Winner!  

12GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 6 x 2048MB  

Intel® X-58 Motherboard- Socket 1366 Core i7 Ready, Dual Triple Channel DDR3 Memory

600GB (2 x 300GB) Velociraptor SATA 3.0Gb/s 10,000RPM 2 x 16MB Cache

4x Dual Layer Blu-ray Burner (BD-RE, DVD±RW, CD-RW)

$6500

 

Apple Mac Pro:

Two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

8GB (4x2GB)

2X300GB 15,000 RPM

NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 1.5GB

 

$10,699.00

16 GB

$13,499.00

 

There just completely different machines.  But if you look at notebooks, you will see what they are saying.

Top of the line Mac Book Pro available.

• Intel Core 2 Duo2.6
• 17-inch widescreen
• 4GB Memory 667MHz DDR2
  
• 320GB hard drive 7200RPM
• NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 512MB

$3,049.00

Non-top of the Line Alienware Notebook

• Intel® Core™2 Quad Extreme 2.53
  
• Dual 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 3870
  
• 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 Memory
  
• 500GB (250GB x 2) 7,200RPM (8MB Cache) RAID 0 or 1
  
• BluRay

$3,349.00

or Intel® Core™2 T9600 2.8GHz (6MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB) 

$2,649.00