Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 28th Jun 2004 23:16 UTC
As Futurama's Professor Hubert Farnsworth usually says: "Good news everyone...". Apple introduced today its upcoming 64-bit enhanced Tiger operating system due in the first quarter of 2005. Click in for our report from today's WWDC opening which includes 18 pictures of the event.
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I absolutely love OS X, but when I can build an Intel/AMD machine (top of the line) for $600, it's hard to even consider going to look at the $2000+ Apple options.
$600 for a top of the line PC? You do realize that the top of the line consumer graphics cards cost almost that much alone right? Apple computers are expensive yes. But, it's not because PC's are cheaper, but rather it's because Apple's tend to come with some really high end hardware by default. If you go to say, Dell, and try to configure an equivalent PC to a given mac configuration, they are pretty close in terms of price. By equivalent I don't mean just the basics, I mean all the extras like firewire 800(?), gigabit ethernet, etc etc.
(Actually, I've only tried the above comparison for laptops, maybe desktops are a different story)
Arguably the G5 is overly expensive compared to an equivalent Opteron, but on the whole, Mac's tend to simply be high end only, rather than more expensive than PCs. I do think it would be nice to have a low end mac that doesn't have a built in monitor. An emac minus the monitor would be great.