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[quote][i]Originally posted by Dom[/i] [quote][i]Originally posted by DaveyLC[/i] Strongly disagree, my old man just bought a high end Dell Alienware (LGA2011) system with twin GTX770's for just over £2,200 quid.. Its pretty much on par with (maybe slightly better than) a entry level MacPro granted the Mac Pro hasn't got a display but the one that shipped with the Dell wasn't exactly breath taking.[/quote] Alienware are gaming systems (GTX cards clearly give that away) rather than workstations and apart from game design/testing, they typically wouldn't be used in professional industries. As said, compare (new) Mac Pro's against workstations and cost vs performance is different. And if you need to use expansion cards (like a lot of studios, ie - Digidesign/Avid HD cards etc) then you can quite easily double the cost of opting for a new Mac Pro. [quote][i]Originally posted by DaveyLC[/i] The Mac will actually have a value in 3 years though where as the Dell will be nearly worthless.[/quote] Arguable the Mac will EOL quicker due to the lack of upgrade paths, whereas a business could easily extent the life of a PC workstation with little cost. [quote][i]Originally posted by DaveyLC[/i] I never said it didn't happen! But the chances of you fucking your PC are significantly higher than a mac.[/quote] Not sure about it being 'significantly higher' on a Windows system as it's not particularly difficult to fully fudge OSX, but i'd agree to some extent on this. [quote][i]Originally posted by DaveyLC[/i] ...its the hardware I love, its just so damn nice![/quote] Surely you mean the packaging and design rather than physical internal hardware as you can get the same hardware in a PC :boggle: But i agree, Apple's packaging of hardware (with the exception of the new Mac Pro which is mind boggling pointless as a workstation) tends to be pretty damn good. [Edited on 12-12-2014 by Dom] [/quote]
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