JamesCizuz said:
Target Disk also fails 6% of the way, and the standard for programs which perform that action is supposed to be BELOW 0.05%.
Also, there is no reason to buy a mac. Buy a PC, and dual boot XP and OSX. You can do that you know? It's not hard anymore, ISOs now exist which do it all for you. It runs good, except for some conflicts with some hardware, you wouldn't have to worry 95% of s-hardware is supported. Special hardware meaning things like wireless cards, and sound cards. Everything else would be supported. |
You obviously don't know what Target disk mode is.... You are right, you can make a Frankenmac and save some money (but still hassle with the software to hardware integration).....or you can save your time which has value as well....and buy a solution that is fully integrated right from the vendor. I see this at my work all of the time. The Mac folks will purchase machines that cost more up front, but last longer and require little or no service or support. The PC folks buy cheap.....and then periodically change out parts and do upgrades.....and then spend hours fixing the machines when the hardware update conflicts with the OS/ drive mix. They end up spending more money and time then the Mac folks do........That's why we now are forcing everyone to look at total cost of ownership over the life cycle of a machine/solution. Once you do that, you quickly see the MS price savings vanish and it actually turns into a money losing proposition.
