Re: Psystar Is Willing To Fight

In article <YOwNj.3991$vF.2582@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Mackay <steve_mackay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lloyd Parsons wrote:
In article <480666ff$0$22217$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve Mackay <steve_mackay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lloyd Parsons wrote:
In article <D8KdnaDYVbkpz5vVnZ2dnUVZ_r_inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lloyd Parsons wrote:

Apple ensures through better testing and design, that not just any
parts
go in their machines, only the ones that work best together. Pretty
much explains why Apple's boxes have fewer problems and possibly is the
reason for the longer average life and resale value.
I guess you didn't buy one of the first Mac Pros with the ATI x1900xt
cards in them.

And never left your Apple engineered iPod connected to it when you
restarted (it hangs the system).

Their quality sadly doesn't seem to be as good these days...

Steve
I have a Powermac G5, the early 1.8Ghz single processor version and an
Intel powered Mini, as well as one of the early iPods.

Almost no problems with any of them, nor with the other much older macs
I have had over the years.

The only problem I have had that is irritating is Leopard and my G5
Powermac. It seems that some people, me included, are having issues
with the two together. But then it is a 4 year old machine and an early
design. Expecting Leopard to not have an issue or two with it would be
like asking Vista to not have problems with 4+ year old wintel boxes.
But isn't that the whole idea behind the "whole widget", that since they
speced' out all the parts, it should "just work", right?

Nice try!



Since they built the whole widget that worked just fine, and still does
with the original software and OS, and even some later versions of the
OS, it did work right.

But now it is 4+ years later and a new OS is out there that SOME
Powermac G5's are having problems with.

Did you get that G5 single 1.8GHZ before it was released? I mean,
considering it wasn't released until mid October 2004, would make it 3
1/2 years old.

Hmm... I bought it as a refurb in 2004 and had a 3-yr Applecare on it
also. That expired in Sept I think. Seems odd...

Now the Powermac G5 is still working, so is the OS up to Tiger. So I
suppose it could be compared to hooking up a newly designed tranny to
your 4 year old car and expecting that to work with no problems.

ummm... No. Car analogies never fit right.


Or you could look at it this way. Apple designed my PM G5 'widget' with
an OS included as part of that widget. That widget is still working
fine with no problems at all. Now I add something that wasn't made
specifically for that particular 'widget' and a small percentage of us
are having issues.

The list price on that G5 was $1500.
Now, lets just say for comparison, I bought a $1500 computer back in
2004....

Lets look at some prices.... I've used www.gotapex.com to help me get
really good deals at Dell. So lets look near the date of the release of
the single G5 1.8 powermac. 4th quarter of 2004

On October 24th 2004 I could have gotten a Dell 8400 with a P4 3.0GHZ, 1
gig of ram, 160gb SATA HD, ATI Radeon X800SE PCI-E with 19" LCD monitor.
for about $1050 with discounts.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041024083135/http://www.gotapex.com/

With a simple $190(I've seen them just last week at $165 however)
GeForce 8800GT graphics card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130318
Upgrade ram to 4 gig for $70
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227296
that same Dell 8400 would run Vista just fine.

You say that, but have you or anyone you know tried it?

The major complaint that I've heard from friends is that Vista just
isn't very friendly to machines more than those produced about a year
before Vista released.
.

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