Why does the media worship Apple?

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greenmedic88 said:

No dude. If I counted the amount of time I spend on a typical PC to get it to run exactly the way I want it to without problems and paid myself accordingly, Macs aren't just reasonably priced, they're a bargain considering I rarely have to tinker with anything to start working.

The flexibility I get by sourcing and configuring specific parts when I build a PC is the main reason why I still build my own workstations; it has a lot less to do with costs. This and the fact that there are production apps only available on Windows is why I use both platforms, but about the only thing I save by building a Wintel box is on the price of components.

As for $900 PC laptops based on Sandy Bridge i7 CPUs and Nvidia GT 540M GPUs, the 540M is really just a renamed GT 435M and it's about 30% slower than the GPU in the discrete GPU MBPs with the AMD HD 6750M. Plus, $900 buys a laptop with a i7-2630QM, which costs about $160 less than the i7-2720QM in the MBP.

Even if I configured a Sager laptop with comparable specs to the MBP for about $1,100, it would still have the slower GT 540M GPU and most importantly, it still wouldn't run OSX or any of the OSX only apps I run.

My only real gripe with Apple configurations is that for the price you pay, they don't use faster standard GPUs, which in the case of laptops may have more to do with heat and power consumption issues than anything else. You just can't fit a high end gaming GPU in a slim form 5.6 lb package and expect managable heat levels and 7-8 hour battery life.

What exactly do you all have to do with your setup that takes so long?  I'm just curious, not trying to sound like I'm attacking you or anything.

Also, I know the processor is a bit faster on the current macbook pros.  I also discovered it is 1333mhz ram I have.

One other question, since you seem to follow them.  I've looked in the past, and its as if Apple is slow to respond to hardware changes, was this just coincidental, or are they actually slow to respond to the newest hardware changes?  Also, did they very recently update their macbooks, because all of that stuff is somewhat new.