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Now add the 3 year APP (as I mentioned). Yes, all $350 of it. Makes a pretty good price difference, and it merely gets the coverage up to what Dell's including. Apple doesn't even offer the onsite service that Dell does (which is why I didn't include it in my quoted quote). As the price goes, you're already over $500 more than the Dell offering.
Whoops, we didn't catch the 802.11 a/g cards (to be fair, now add the price of a combo PCMCIA card to the apple quote). Or the extra 32mb of graphics memory. Etc. And we're still dealing with an 867mhz G4 machine at these numbers (yes, its only $250 more for the 1ghz, but I was trying to get a true feature/price comparison before).
Look, I like the PowerBooks. I think they're great machines. I recently bought a 12" for my future in-laws to use around the house. Put a decent resolution LCD and a 1.2ghz 970 in one and I'll buy it today (double the expected specInt makes a big difference when it comes to compile times). But going around claiming either that the intel-powered offerings are very inferior (which they're not these days), have poorer battery life, or are more expensive (hardly) doesn't help anyone. Slanted comparisons don't really help much either.
-Richard
I did. Check my comments. First, I spec'd 1GB of ram (add $300 to your pricing). Yes, you can get 3rd party RAM but a) that's not exactly a valid comparison of pricing, and b) for business use, its very convenient to be able to use one company for failures, warrantee work, et cetera.
Now add the 3 year APP (as I mentioned). Yes, all $350 of it. Makes a pretty good price difference, and it merely gets the coverage up to what Dell's including. Apple doesn't even offer the onsite service that Dell does (which is why I didn't include it in my quoted quote). As the price goes, you're already over $500 more than the Dell offering.
Whoops, we didn't catch the 802.11 a/g cards (to be fair, now add the price of a combo PCMCIA card to the apple quote). Or the extra 32mb of graphics memory. Etc. And we're still dealing with an 867mhz G4 machine at these numbers (yes, its only $250 more for the 1ghz, but I was trying to get a true feature/price comparison before).
Look, I like the PowerBooks. I think they're great machines. I recently bought a 12" for my future in-laws to use around the house. Put a decent resolution LCD and a 1.2ghz 970 in one and I'll buy it today (double the expected specInt makes a big difference when it comes to compile times). But going around claiming either that the intel-powered offerings are very inferior (which they're not these days), have poorer battery life, or are more expensive (hardly) doesn't help anyone. Slanted comparisons don't really help much either.
-Richard
