iMac Tech Specs vs. PC's

Macs tend to ship with less RAM and hard drive capacity than comparably priced PCs (the real difference is the operating system and bundled software). But if you think you'd need 2 GB of RAM and 320 GB of drive space on a PC, then you should get similar specs for the Mac, too.

Bus speeds, *NOW*, all the same...

not the little yellow ones... 🙂

{quote:title=corelle wrote:}but is it necessary?{quote}
it all come down to *$$$*...

With all memory requirements being the same, Apple handpicks and configures all the components to run with absolute optimization on Apple’s own OS X operating system. There are virtually no bottlenecks or hardware components that aren’t taken advantage of to their utmost. What this means is with two similarly configured Mac and PC computers, the Mac will outperform the PC.
This is also true even when comparing Windows verses Windows on Mac vs PC similar configurations.


see charts here:
http://www.barefeats.com/macvpc.html

as for costs:
http://www.switchingtomac.com/wp/mac-vs-pc-part-5-hardware/

It's all up on the actual hardware inside a Mac, Apple uses leading technology in their computers, in many cases going above industry standard and on top of this they have the added advantage of being able to leveraging their own OS to run at peek optimization and performance...


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When comparing prices it always depends on what you are comparing - but I maintain PCs are cheaper. For example - in the UK the base 20" iMac is £800 - with Dell you could get a real screamer for that!!

Performance wise you are often limited on Macs with things like graphics cards.

Macs are often bought more for fashion - you can do what you want on all of them - even Linux - hardcore gamers will use Windows - but for general purpose both will do and the Macs look nicer (HW and OS).

1GB is minimum for the Mac - got extra HD - you are restricted with an iMac - although you can go for cheap (these days) external storage - on the Xeons - you can add HD just as you can with Windows boxes.

The reason Macs lag behind is that their release cycle is so much more infrequent - Dell for example update their specs almost weekly, when new HW comes out - Apple can't/don't do this.

"Fashion - turn to left..."