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Revolutionary New Macs!

[Francois Déchery]

Whaou, telling something against Apple current policy seems to be crime, theses days. You are treated to go F.Y. and buy a PC, to make imediate proof of what you're daring to say, to not even think by yourself and express your own opinion, or even to quit immediatly. Why not the capital punishment?

Show me a PC that's equivalent for 1/3 the price and I'll buy it right now.

Here is a 15 minutes search at online stores

Quad core computer
- ASUS ASRock X58 Extreme3................182e
- Intel W3530 processor .............................275e
- ATI Radeon HD 5770 - 1 Go ..................130e
- Crucial 3GB of 1066 MHz DDR3................90e
- Samsung 1TB Serial ATA 3Gb/s .............. 60e
- Pioneer DVR-116D.......................................25e
- LaCie PCI (3 x FireWire 800) .....................60e
- Mac like tower case......................................41e
- 500W powersupply .....................................30e

Total 883e
Equivalent MacPro 2400e

===> Ratio 2,72

But please note that for this price i also have 6Gb SATA, USB3 ports, eSata III ports, 1 more PCI port, a 20x superdrive, a SPDIF output , and 8 audio outputs....

Now take the fact that I dont order million of computer parts like Apple do; That I've only spent 15 min to gather theses datas; and balance with the fact that I didn't counted OSX.... and you are near the 3 ratio, if not more....

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May be the english translation was not as accurate as it should have been (translating irony is really difficult, i'm sorry), but that was not really the point of my news, so please don't argue me that the mac has blblabla... vs this Asus motherborad or vs this computer case or vs this or this....This is simply not the point!

The real point is that this computer is almost the same as the first intel MacPro launched in 2006. 4 years in the computer world, it's a Jurassic age!
Here in Europe the 2010 MacPro is even a bit more expensive than it was in 2006....
I bet the real world benchmarks won't show more than a 10-15% difference (2,66GHz vs 2,8GHz with a faster? bus)

Should we say it's normal, that Apple did not significantly update its Pro computers since 4 year !
Do you really think that this new one is faster/ sexiest or really more advanced than the good old one from 2006?
What has really evolved, except Apple's margin?

Is it only me, or didn't you notice that since the iPod/iPhone/iPad mania at Apple, both OSX and Apple computers didn't really evolved. At least, they did not evolved as fast as we were used to...

But if you want to blindly applause at Apple even when they stagnate, that's perfectly your right: reading the Apple marketing blabla on their site should stay you totally informed.

Otherwise lets talk about this, peacefully
If you think there was still an exciting innovation (for the Mac or OSX ) at Apple since 4 year, please express your point of view!