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These comparisons are silly. Now imagine it's a BMW vs someone's project car both with the same $$$ invested. Yeah, the project car will probably smoke it. But
by feld 10y ago
These comparisons are silly. Now imagine it's a BMW vs someone's project car both with the same $$$ invested.
Yeah, the project car will probably smoke it. But not everyone wants a project car.
- ben174 10y agoThey should be doing this test against a Mac Pro if they want a fair comparison. And yes, the Mac Pro would likely be more expensive, but I don't think it's a surprise to anyone that building your own overclocked PC is cheaper.
- bane 10y agoWhy would it necessarily be cheaper? After all Apple has both economy of scale and the capacity to buy up the entire manufacturing run of many of the components. They should be able to assemble a system as tightly integrated as a Mac much cheaper than somebody could go out and buy all the parts for. A better example might be the cost delta between buying a car from the manufacturer and buying all the parts to make the same car separately and putting it together. The direct from manufacturer car will be far cheaper.
- omonra 10y agoApple probably doesn't 'get out of bed' for a profit margin smaller than X%. That number is probably an order of magnitude higher than the profit margin of component makers.
- Shakahs 10y agoI agree, perhaps it would be better to compare the iMac's performance against a $4,000 Dell Precision workstation.