[citation][nom]cbrei10213[/nom]Actually I did it just now. I started with a Mac Pro, which uses Xenon processors, who knows why. No PC I can get on dell will have it so I went to I Mac. Starting at the cheapest I have Core 2 Duo. 3.06ghz. on a computer starting at 1200. I left it as is.$1200 iMaccore 2 Duo 3.06GHZ4GB ram500GB drive9400m graphicsNow the dell (I looked for the $1200 price tag, but the $1100 was plenty for the point.)$1100 Delli7-920 2.66ghz8GB ram750GB drivegeForce 310And with the extra hundred bucks I can do things like. Upgrade graphics card, ram, monitor, hard drive size, even add a second or third, better or second cd/dvd drive, better speakers, upgraded sound card, fancy keyboard, etc. I could even manage to do 2 or 3 of these things depending on the ones i chose.Anyway, im sure you get the point[/citation]
Someone went to the trouble of marking this dude down -1 for using actual facts to prove that a lesser spec'd Mac costs more than a branded PC. Well done, very mature, obviously an Apple fan who cannot bear to be proven wrong and has to resort to childish name-calling or obviously false statements of superiority that cannot be supported by any facts.
If any Apple fan can show me, with actual links to actual websites from Sony and Apple, a comparative laptop build where both have the same CPU, same gaming graphics card, same size screen, same HDD, same optical drive - but the Mac costs the same or lesds I will buy both of them for you.
No? Didn't think so.
This test has already been done to death a hundred times before by many people including myself. I got the latest Sony with a Core i7, better graphics, double the ram, bigger HDD, same size screen but with higher res and it came in over $300 cheaper.
I have cancelled out your -1 because whoever did it is just a dick. Period.
I am not saying Macs dont have a place in the world, they do, a very important place, but that place is not one of cost-effectiveness or apparently gaming, so dont try and say that any PC is more expensive than a comparatively spec'd Mac because you will just be wrong, wrong, wrong.