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Posted by: Goob0t
Yes mac's are sooo much worse for more money.

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And again with idiot/retard in your comment? LOL, you aren't insecure.
Yes, over-priced PCs/Laptops exist as well, but the difference is that Macs are always over-priced whereas, if you're smart, you can actually get your money's worth with a PC.

This is a far better example. This is also a great reference.

Both PCs are EXACTLY the same. The Mac version is around 3x the price. Try actually justifying that. Just try.

[Edited on 01.11.2012 8:54 PM PST]

  • 01.11.2012 8:52 PM PDT
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what is this halo you speak of?

First off those are old, second off in the second link i didn't really go over it much but i saw an error with one of his points. Also for the first one i don't see any specs or info so i don't know how you want me to respond.

  • 01.11.2012 9:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: Goob0t
First off those are old, second off in the second link i didn't really go over it much
There's where your credibility is torn to shreds. You're not willing to look into the subject. Therefore you choose to be ignorant which has shown to be the truth many times throughout this thread.

but i saw an error with one of his points.Oh, you saw an error? Please... Tell us what the error is... Sort of odd you just say you saw an error then don't even begin to say what it is... I think you're bluffing.

Also for the first one i don't see any specs or info so i don't know how you want me to respond. You don't see any specs? Most of the entire picture is specs... -_-' It lists the GPU, the CPU, the HDD, the CD drive, the media card, the monitors, the RAM, and the processor. All of which are exactly the same on both computers.

I like how that post just ultimately proves that you're completely ignorant. Not one thing in it is valid. It only helps what DusK is claiming.

[Edited on 01.11.2012 10:16 PM PST]

  • 01.11.2012 10:15 PM PDT
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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

You posted nothing to address my point. You just found the most absurdly expensive Vaio you could find, linked it, and then linked the front page for Macbook Pro.

People would have to be as equally as retarded to buy that Vaio as they would for a Mac Pro, or as I explain later in this post, a Macbook Pro. You have proven nothing.

Now, if you had read my argument, you'd have noticed that I was addressing the stock Mac Pro specifically. A desktop. A stock Mac Pro has:

One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Nehalem processor
3GB DDR3 ECC SDRAM
Radeon HD 5770 1GB video card
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive

That costs $2,500. My PC, which only costed me a mere $1024, has:

One 3.3 GHz Intel Core i5 2500K quad-core processor (3.7GHz TurboBoost)
8GB DDR3 G.Skill Ripjaws X RAM
nVidia GTX 480 1.5GB video card
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 6 Gb/s hard drive

Basically, all of these critical specs on my system are better than a Mac Pro. That's right. My system costs less than half of the starting point of a "state-of-the-art" Mac desktop and blows it out of the damn water.

Now for fun, let's compare your oh-so-precious MacBook to my laptop.

My 17" laptop, an MSI GX740 which cost me $1,200, has:
Intel Core i7 720QM
4GB DDR3 RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870
320GB HDD

The cheapest 17" Macbook Pro costs $2,500, and despite beating mine in terms of HDD space and processor speed (marginally), it doesn't even have a dedicated graphics chip. Not only that, but the i7 720QM TurboBoosts up to 2.8GHz, unlike the Macbook Pro's 2.4GHz quad-core. Recap: My $1,200 17" laptop is actually better for gaming performance than a $2,500 17" Macbook Pro.

So much bang for the buck, right? Your move, fanboy.

[Edited on 01.12.2012 3:19 AM PST]

  • 01.11.2012 10:20 PM PDT




Posted by: Inebriate
Mac OS is not built specifically for the hardware it runs on.

It's the same as any other Intel-based operating system.

Get over it.

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Nope, if you didn't realize, the whole reason apple keeps it so they only can make Mac OSX machines is so they can build the os for their machines pacifically.


I didn't realize. Thank you for that incredible revelation.

[Edited on 01.12.2012 3:59 AM PST]

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what is this halo you speak of?


Posted by: Dr Syx

Posted by: Goob0t
First off those are old, second off in the second link i didn't really go over it much
There's where your credibility is torn to shreds. You're not willing to look into the subject. Therefore you choose to be ignorant which has shown to be the truth many times throughout this thread.

Or i have better things to do than to argue about a computer on the internet to an already ignorant person.

but i saw an error with one of his points.Oh, you saw an error? Please... Tell us what the error is... Sort of odd you just say you saw an error then don't even begin to say what it is... I think you're bluffing.

He says that the disk drive is 100$ when it says right there free.

Also for the first one i don't see any specs or info so i don't know how you want me to respond. You don't see any specs? Most of the entire picture is specs... -_-' It lists the GPU, the CPU, the HDD, the CD drive, the media card, the monitors, the RAM, and the processor. All of which are exactly the same on both computers.

I like how that post just ultimately proves that you're completely ignorant. Not one thing in it is valid. It only helps what DusK is claiming.


Ya, it says specs with out any official source to those specs and price points.

[Edited on 01.12.2012 4:53 PM PST]

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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

Yeah, just go ahead and sidestep my post. If I was wrong and someone proved it, I'd probably want to avoid it too.

And I'm ignorant? Kid, you calling me ignorant is like John Goodman calling me a fatass.

You know what, let's twist that blade a bit. Here's the most recent starting point for a Mac pro. Now you can't -blam!- about the image being "old."

All of the (rather mediocre) specs that I showed in my previous post are there on the $2,500 model. 2.8 GHz quad core Intel, 3 GB DDR3 RAM, 1 TB 7200-rpm SATA 2Gb/s HDD, ATI Radeon HD 5770 video card.

Let's tear this apart.

To bring that processor up to a 3.2GHz quad core, it costs an additional $400. That's not for an additional processor; that's just to replace the 2.8GHz one with a 3.2GHz one. 400 freakin' bucks. Here's the processor I use: An Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz processor (3.7GHz Turboboost). This processor by itself runs better than the processor you can upgrade to on the Mac pro and costs only $225.

A 3GB upgrade to the Mac Pro's DDR3 RAM, bringing the system up to 6GB, costs $225. Here's an upgrade kit featuring 4GB (2x2GB) for only $40. That's less than 25% of the cost to upgrade a Mac Pro with 3GB of RAM.

To upgrade the Mac Pro's HDD to a 2TB (not adding a 2TB HDD, but upgrading the existing one, keep that in mind), it costs $150. To add one in any of the other drive bays, it costs $150 for a 1TB 3GB/s HDD, or $300 for a 2TB 3GB/s HDD. Here's a Seagate Barracuda green 1.5TB HDD with double the transfer rate of the Mac Pro's HDDs, costing less than it does to upgrade the Mac Pro's 1TB HDD to a 2TB HDD. Here's a 2TB Barracuda with double the transfer speed of the Mac Pro HDDs. It costs only $20 more than it costs to upgrade an existing Mac Pro HDD to the 2TB model, and a whopping $130 less than what it would cost to get an additional HDD. Keep in mind that both of those HDDs are 6GB/s, a transfer rate double that of their Mac counterparts.

An additional Radeon HD 5770 on a Mac Pro costs $250. That is freakin' hilarious. Here's an HD 5770 1GB for $115, less than half of what it costs to get an additional one on a Mac Pro.

Wipe yourself off, kid. You just got owned.

[Edited on 01.12.2012 6:19 PM PST]

  • 01.12.2012 5:50 PM PDT


Posted by: DusK
Yeah, just go ahead and sidestep my post. If I was wrong and someone proved it, I'd probably want to avoid it too.

And I'm ignorant? Kid, you calling me ignorant is like John Goodman calling me a fatass.

You know what, let's twist that blade a bit. Here's the most recent starting point for a Mac pro. Now you can't -blam!- about the image being "old."

All of the (rather mediocre) specs that I showed in my previous post are there on the $2,500 model. 2.8 GHz quad core Intel, 3 GB DDR3 RAM, 1 TB 7200-rpm SATA 2Gb/s HDD, ATI Radeon HD 5770 video card.

Let's tear this apart.

To bring that processor up to a 3.2GHz quad core, it costs an additional $400. That's not for an additional processor; that's just to replace the 2.8GHz one with a 3.2GHz one. 400 freakin' bucks. Here's the processor I use: An Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz processor (3.7GHz Turboboost). This processor by itself runs better than the processor you can upgrade to on the Mac pro and costs only $225.

A 3GB upgrade to the Mac Pro's DDR3 RAM, bringing the system up to 6GB, costs $225. Here's an upgrade kit featuring 4GB (2x2GB) for only $40. That's less than 25% of the cost to upgrade a Mac Pro with 3GB of RAM.

To upgrade the Mac Pro's HDD to a 2TB (not adding a 2TB HDD, but upgrading the existing one, keep that in mind), it costs $150. To add one in any of the other drive bays, it costs $150 for a 1TB 3GB/s HDD, or $300 for a 2TB 3GB/s HDD. Here's a Seagate Barracuda green 1.5TB HDD with double the transfer rate of the Mac Pro's HDDs, costing less than it does to upgrade the Mac Pro's 1TB HDD to a 2TB HDD. Here's a 2TB Barracuda with double the transfer speed of the Mac Pro HDDs. It costs only $20 more than it costs to upgrade an existing Mac Pro HDD to the 2TB model, and a whopping $130 less than what it would cost to get an additional HDD. Keep in mind that both of those HDDs are 6GB/s, a transfer rate double that of their Mac counterparts.

An additional Radeon HD 5770 on a Mac Pro costs $250. That is freakin' hilarious. Here's an HD 5770 1GB for $115, less than half of what it costs to get an additional one on a Mac Pro.

Wipe yourself off, kid. You just got owned.



Dusk, you don't understand. It's made specifically for the OS. All that work has to be worth a lot of money!

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Yeah. That's right. I don't have a 50 in H3. I never got Onyx in Reach. If a game sucks too much, I won't even bother trying for such trivial "accolades". Besides, I've done way more things that take far more skill and talent than anything that can be done in a video game.

I like that one too. That's actually the second most frequent argument I hear. Like somehow the OS itself justifies paying out the ass for sub-par hardware. What's funny is that I always hear this argument from people who think Windows costs too much, when by their logic, OSX costs over $1,500.

  • 01.12.2012 9:56 PM PDT

Halo Reach PC über alles!


Posted by: Tempus Irae
Dusk, you don't understand. It's made specifically for the OS. All that work has to be worth a lot of money!


If I may present a different point of view on the matter. Now there's just no excuse.

  • 01.13.2012 3:35 AM PDT

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