ARR and Mac

[Zenaku]

While I do agree that $300 labour to plug in a GPU from whatever computer store is massively overpriced, your statement above is extremely false.

My mother is a very intelligent woman yet wouldn't know where to plug in a stick of RAM or how to install a hard drive. There are a huge amount of intelligent people that don't know how the components of a computer go together.



$4000 for an iMac? Lolwhat? I got my iMac 4 years ago for $2600 AUD, which was a top of the line iMac in its day. Where are you getting this figure? Because you are getting ripped off if you were quoted $4000.

You do have to also take into consideration that to buy an equivalent display, your options are quite limited and expensive.

If you have the display, the knowledge, and the patience to build a Hackintosh, install both Windows & Mac OS, sure you can build a computer using PC components for a cheaper price, however for the general population that is not an option.





Once again, my mother wouldn't know where to begin.



What is hard for you, may be extremely difficult for the worlds greatest cyclist, or swimmer, or body builder or *insert non IT profession here*. Being handy with computers is not easy for some people, even very intelligent people.



I believe your timing is insanely underexaggerated. To find 8-10 different components, price them all up, find the best deals, drive to each store or wait for online delivery, you are pushing on days.

If I wanted to buy a new apple computer, I would drive to my local Apple store, spend 30 mins with a sales rep to tell me what I do or don't need for my circumstance, hand over my credit card and walk out with a computer. I would then plug a power cable in, put the batteries in my keyboard and mouse, then be able to turn the computer on.

People pay money for this premium, and for people that don't know how to install a RAM stick, it is certainly the easiest option. You can't argue with convenience. People pay for it.

Go to http://store.apple.com/us/browse/hom...ac/family/imac and then click on the 27-inch: 3.2GHz then put all the best upgrade for parts not the keyboard and such. It would come down to 3,849.00 or higher so yes that right from the apple store so i don't know what you talking about. Also things in AU is very overprice my friend payed 2k to build a computer and the price for it in USA to build the same PC would have been 1k.

Also about your mother you do understand that if a person can plug something in they can easy plug in a ram chip right? If you show her how to do it she can simple do it without issue. It's not about she can't do it, it's all about if she willing to learn something she does not care about. My mom is 60 year old and she does not even know how to use a microwave because in cuba they just did not have that in her time i told how to do it and she still end up calling me to do it for her so it all about willing to do something.

I understand people pay for premium and that how they really get ripped off. It's the same thing as someone buying a alienware vs building one themself. I understand some people just don't want to risk building there own computer so they buy a alienware that fine. But when you talking about buying a imac for 2-4k vs building a computer for the same price you just got ripped off.

I don't really care if people buy imac or w/e that up too them it the same for people who buy amd/intel or ati/nvidia. You know tomato tomahto. But remember i trying to prove a point to the person that said that any PC you can build wont be as fast as her imac. A 2k mac vs a 2k build pc is not even a race then the person goes on about labor which i understand cost but we talking about a person building there own pc or asking a friend to build it for them. Not going to bestbuy where they put the most over price i ever seen in my life.

I not trying to be rude or tell someone not to buy something it's just make sure you know what you talking about. A 2k imac is not better then me building my own computer that what i'm talking about or even buying a alienware one.If you want to buy a build computer because you don't want to risk it that fine

Overall point is that person comparison is seriously ridiculous.