Mac computers

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Do they even make $800 macs?

Macs are so enormously overpriced for half decent hardware. The best graphics card they offer on their most powerful computer is an ATI Radeon HD 5870, a two generation old midline graphics card, and that's only if you are willing to pay a whopping $2700 for it. $2700 for a midline gaming computer, and mid-high end computer all around. Even Ailenware offers a more than equivalent computer for a mere $1500, and even they are way overpriced! I was able to build my current PC, a high end beast of a computer with high-mid end CPU, best of the best GPU, high quality monitor, keyboard/mouse, OS, and headset for a total of $1500. Almost half the price of the MAC shown above for a computer that more than easily outperforms anything Apple has to offer, by a factor of like 3x. Now if you look at that, the math doesn't really add up all too well. So, if macs were just a little better than PCs, or lasted a little longer, it still wouldn't be worth buying one in the slightest. However, to claim that MACs are better than PCs is to claim a specific brand of SUV is better than all cars. It simply doesn't work like that. There are bound to be sucky cars, ones that are designed to be the baseline. They are usually very cheap and most likely won't last long or perform very well. However, there are also the Ferraris, and Porsches, and even Nascars that outperform, outlast, and are all around better and more reliable than that specific brand of SUV. Now, that would be fine and all, if the medium quality brand of SUV wasn't as expensive as a nice Ferrari. Then it just gets stupid. The only reason Apple is able to sell as well as it has is because Apple has lots of really good and smart marketing people. They are able to advertise it as the best and greatest in the world, when they are really talking out of their butts. For example, the iPhone 5 sold massively around the world. Millions of people ditched their old iPhone 4 for the "newest and greatest", but what did it really offer? A little bit larger screen and slightly improved voice recognition software. That's about it. Do you know why these people payed so much money for such a small improvement? Because Apple is able to make it seem like every time they do something it is a great revolution and is better than anything else. Well, you know what, it's not. Finally, if you claim that the windows OS sucks, then you are ignorant and closed minded. I will certainly say that Windows is better than the MAC OS X, but I will not go into that because the difference in quality of the software is not something that I feel is as extreme as the other things. I feel very strongly about the things I have said and truly think that MACs are in no way better than PCs. Their cost is absurd and their quality is not something to compare. It is silly to ever purchase a MAC.

I apologize for ranting and digress.