Re: No brainer PC buyers guide

steve.travis@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
Lisa Horton wrote:

Don wrote:

So you want a tower case PC:

Apple: $2000 for an entry level dual G5, PC no scroll one button mouse

AMD: $600 for an AMD athlon 64 3200, 2 button + scroll

Add: Free antivirus and spyware protection and security = OS X

So, for approx 400% more $ what are you getting?

- No cpu upgrade options
- Locked into proprietory H/W (PS, MB)
- Locked into OS X, no Linux, Vista
- Limited applications
- A deadend cpu platform

Sadly, Mac zealots continue to persist... 

An Athlon 64 complete system for $600? Cite please, that's a little hard
to believe.

Note that you're comparing a dual CPU to a single CPU, not quite a good
comparison.



True.  However, if the board in question is of the 939socket variety,
then at a later time, you can upgrade to an AMD 64 dual core.  This is
in contrast to Intel, where the dual core is not compatible with any of
the previous single cores (probably because the current P4 Dual is just
a cobbled up dual core, while the AMD64 was designed with multi-cores
in mind)

This puts his system at well over $600.
.

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