- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Macintoshes weren't necessarily designed for gaming. Even then, there are other options for the PowerMacs. The PowerMacs you showed are outdated. You showed a Dual 2.5 Ghz PowerMac when the newest G5 is TWO dual core G5s clocked at 2.5 Ghz. I wouldn't necessarily say Macs are over priced. There's a lot of stuff that the ignorant don't mention. Macs come with tight integration between the OS and the Computer, since both of them were made by Apple Computer Inc. Also, not all of the Macs are $3000. You can get macs now for $700 (at costco) with 1.5 Ghz G4 processors, Radeon 9200 with 64 MB GPUs, 512Mb of RAM, Bluetooth, Airport (wifi), a bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse, and a 3 year extended warranty. I'd say it's not a bad deal in my opinion. Even though they won't win many benchmarks, they still perform faster doing day to day tasks compared to Windows explorer. There are many of PC users who are absolutely obsessed with having the highest benchmarks, so they go and risk voiding their warranty by overclocking them just to get 5 fps more. If I wanted to be able to print out benchmarks, that pwned everyone else's, I'd build a PC, just like my parents' (which is at Best Buy for it's 4th repair in less than 3 months)
[Edited on 3/17/2006]