Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Apr 2009 22:09 UTC
While we generally don't really report on Apple rumours (for obvious reasons) I thought the one currently making its rounds across the countless copying/pasting Apple websites is pretty interesting discussion material. According to the ominpresent and omnipotent "people familiar with the matter", as told by AppleInsider, Apple is preparing to compete on... Price.
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...But still run slower. Windows is simply not as efficient as OS X, which is also not preloaded with a ton of crapware.
I often find that a cheap high-spec machine on paper is still dog-slow because of poor quality harddisk, memory bottlenecks, or simply terrible GPUs.
There is a reason a Mac is one of the fastest computers for running Windows, and it’s not just the spec printed on the box. It is a quality, custom motherboard, chipset & GPU and it is EFI instead of BIOS.
You get what you pay for, and the Mac is still value-for-money in a market of over-inflated numbers.
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Yes apple does use x86/x64 components, however as with the great things about the PC industry, there are still varying degree's of quality even with these generic pc parts.
You can't compare a cheap windows laptop with a mac laptop from a hardware perspective. The quality of the components are much higher. From the chipset to audio to casing and keyboard.
As for the topic in hand i think there is a price point for apple to introduce a mac computer in a tower/mini tower configuration. the iMac is a great machine, however i can see why a great many people would like to have a desktop mac without having it all in one, so they could upgrade the HDD, GPU etc. without having to spend ALOT of money on the Mac Pro.
I believe the mac pro would still enjoy sales as most people purchasing this computers are professionals that benefit from having an x86/x64 workstation (i.e. XEON Processors, fast FSB, large total RAM capacity and speed.)