mac vs. pc

[BenKenobi88]

TheRealMafoo said:
@BeenKenobi88

I would never put that computer together for gaming, and Apple would never expect you to buy it for that reason. I quoted where you said faster and cheaper, and not just for gaming. For none gaming high performance personal computing, the price can't be beat.

For a workstation doing something like blast analysis, or any kind of scientific research, you can not beat that price. This is Apples target audience (why they have the word "pro" in the system name). As someone who has used $250,000 SGI's in the past, and multi-million dollar IBM super computers, 8k for a rig is nothing. These applications are what Apple is targeting, and they are very cheap for what you get.

If I wanted a gaming rig, I would just go to Newegg and throw something together for a grand or two.

 Honestly, no regular consumer would need a rig like that though...

I didn't realize we were arguing in the $7000 realm...I thought we were arguing about computers that people can AFFORD and need, be it Mac or PC. 

Of course $8k is nothing for high performance research and when you compare it to super computers...but bloody hell, man, I'd call that pulling at straws. 

Let's talk an average consumer, who wouldn't use their computer for intense computing, just needing what makes sense.  Nobody really needs 32 GB of ram...anything past 4 isn't really useful with today's programs, you wouldn't need 4 graphics cards, for videogames it's the newer shaders that matter, and combining 4 so-so cards is still not as good as two very good cards, or even one perhaps.

We're just not talking about your kind of computer, the average Mac or PC user doesn't want that.

And to Stever89, I'll help you build a PC rig when you want, though I might not be perfectly up-to-date with everything...I haven't been keeping up with mobos and processors lately.  But I'd check newegg and slickdeals and grab good deals when you see them.