Comments on: Are Macs More Expensive? Round Three: An All-in-One Free-For-All

By: Raymond Cranfill

Raymond Cranfill — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:53:52 +0000

Of course, now, you can get a 24 inch iMac with better specs all ’round for $1495. Seems to me, this would tip the article in greater favor towards the iMac. Also, the styling on all the other all-in-ones just mentioned falls into the butt-ugly category, although this is a simple matter of taste.

By: Gordon MacKay

Gordon MacKay — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:09:54 +0000

One more comparison please. The MacBook Pro to comparable Vista laptops. I’ll check back later…
Thanks!

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MobileMe = Apple+GMail « Scubed — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:08:37 +0000

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By: Cody

Cody — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:01:21 +0000

Hey, thanks for doing these comparisons. I have owned an imac for a few months now and love it, but now I’m running into trouble as far as mobility and am looking at a macbook pro instead, but from my personal research, I have come to find that an HP laptop with the same customization is $1500 less than the top model pro, so it would be very helpful whenever you come out with your next comparison. Thanks!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:08:28 +0000

… Sorry, I meant to say don’t really know how MS Works works, or what it does feature-wise, but the Mac has Text Edit as the basic word processing application.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:06:45 +0000

Don’t know what ms works is, but you failed to mention that the Mac has text edit…

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Technogeekanerd » Blog Archive » The Geekinator Podcast Episode #0018 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:02:36 +0000

[...] Are Macs More Expensive? Round Three: An All-in-One Free-For-All [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:24:51 +0000

One minor point I’m curious about: the Windows systems’ wireless keyboards and mice–how do they connect to the PC? Do you use up one of your USB ports with a dongle? The Apple keyboard, being Bluetooth, wouldn’t require one on the iMac.

By: Someone

Someone — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:29:37 +0000

Jeff,

If you plan on keeping your other PC, then you will have to buy more software anyway.
If you install the software on both PCs and only have one license, you’re breaking the law.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:52:32 +0000

I decided not to bother with Office on the Mac. I use OpenOffice when I need it. Still a little buggy, but you can’t beat the price.

I use older iBook and Compaq notebooks for 90% of my work. Configured nearly identically and from the same era, though the iBook was very slightly cheaper when new. What I notice is that the Windows machine has taken the biggest performance hit as it’s aged, primarily due to the virus software that virtually makes the machine unusable for 45 minutes a day.

Otherwise, both have held up pretty well to heavy use, though the Compaq looks more dated. The only thing that’s broken on either of them is a lost window key on the Compaq and a temperamental power brick on the iBook ($80 to replace? Really?)

I did have to pay for one OS upgrade for the Mac when software developers suddenly seemed to abandon support for 10.2. But then I had to pay for the virus software on the Compaq, so it kind of evens out.