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post #131 of 153
6/7/12 at 3:43pm
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How is this relevant? It would still be cheaper. Do big businesses somehow have less of a desire for stuff to be cheaper?

No they don't, but they do have more desire to save time. In business time is money, it's far more efficient buying a bunch of Mac Pros over a bunch of custom PCs. The PCs aren't going to assemble themselves, they have to hire people. Hiring people takes time, which takes money. Remember that other workstation someone posted that had roughly the same specs for $3K more than the Mac Pro? I didn't see anyone bashing that, I wonder why rolleyes.gif
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6/7/12 at 3:58pm
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No they don't, but they do have more desire to save time. In business time is money, it's far more efficient buying a bunch of Mac Pros over a bunch of custom PCs. The PCs aren't going to assemble themselves, they have to hire people. Hiring people takes time, which takes money. Remember that other workstation someone posted that had roughly the same specs for $3K more than the Mac Pro? I didn't see anyone bashing that, I wonder why rolleyes.gif

Because you don't see millions of people choosing them over better-equipped, lower-priced competition. They're some company probably almost no one here has heard of. Of course they're catching less flak.

Also, I just made a price comparison for two comparable workstations and the difference is literally about 4'000 CHF a piece. That's 80'000 bucks when talking about 20 machines and it only becomes more. Are you going to tell me that kind of saving wouldn't warrant hiring someone?
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6/7/12 at 3:59pm
I say we settle this like gentlemen with a round of BF3.
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post #134 of 153
6/7/12 at 4:06pm
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Because you don't see millions of people choosing them over better-equipped, lower-priced competition. They're some company probably almost no one here has heard of. Of course they're catching less flak.
Also, I just made a price comparison for two comparable workstations and the difference is literally about 4'000 CHF a piece. That's 80'000 bucks when talking about 20 machines and it only becomes more. Are you going to tell me that kind of saving wouldn't warrant hiring someone?

I never said Mac Pro is better for a business than every PC, just custom built ones, unless you could configing a PC on a website as "custom" in which case the Mac Pro is a custom PC as well.

You clearly have no idea how businesses work, stop trying to say custom PCs are better than pre-built workstations. It's going to be cheaper and more efficient if they buy 20+ pre-built PCs (which will take 3 working days to get them and have them up and running) where as 20+ custom PCs would take 3 working days for the parts to get there, 2 days to find someone, hire them, send them on the health and safety course, make sure they're not insane etc. then that person will have to build the 20+ PCs which should take around 1 hour 30 mins to build and install all the software each. Lets say there are 30 PCs to build. That would mean it would take 45 hours of non-stop work.
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I say we settle this like gentlemen with a round of BF3.

Gaming PC =/= workstation PC
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6/7/12 at 4:18pm
I didn't mean workstation vs gaming rig. I meant just an at home daily user system match for last post rights or some such wager. BTW, I own a MBP as well as my home built and choose no sides in this argument. I use everything except Linux. Those Linux users are EVIL. Steal your first-born child they will. JK Linux users!
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6/7/12 at 4:22pm
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I never said Mac Pro is better for a business than every PC, just custom built ones, unless you could configing a PC on a website as "custom" in which case the Mac Pro is a custom PC as well.
You clearly have no idea how businesses work, stop trying to say custom PCs are better than pre-built workstations. It's going to be cheaper and more efficient if they buy 20+ pre-built PCs (which will take 3 working days to get them and have them up and running) where as 20+ custom PCs would take 3 working days for the parts to get there, 2 days to find someone, hire them, send them on the health and safety course, make sure they're not insane etc. then that person will have to build the 20+ PCs which should take around 1 hour 30 mins to build and install all the software each. Lets say there are 30 PCs to build. That would mean it would take 45 hours of non-stop work.

Yeah, I can see a lot of company resources being tied up whilst waiting for the parts to get there.

Even if the process you described was true (I doubt someone you've contracted to assemble some workstations for you requires health and safety courses and checking of their sanity), what would that person earn? Assuming the ridiculous wage of 300 bucks an hour, it'd still be significantly cheaper.
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6/7/12 at 4:23pm
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Those Linux users are EVIL. Steal your first-born child they will. JK Linux users!

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6/7/12 at 4:24pm
There will be litterally no differece between a highish end custom PC and a highish end workstation for "home daily use" tongue.gif

For everyday use (browsing the internet, watching a few youtube videos, maybe watch a movie) I can't tell the difference between my sig rig and an Athlon 1800 + nVidia 7200GS build and I doubt very many people can tell the difference.
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6/7/12 at 4:57pm
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The tone of your post is awfully condescending.
I repair computers on a university campus (read: Macs, Macs everywhere)... these things are a pain in the ass to move around. Weight matters in a desktop for one primary reason -- computers need to be serviced.

Hit the gym bro! biggrin.gif . 15 pounds isn't that bad.
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6/7/12 at 5:09pm
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Hit the gym bro! biggrin.gif . 15 pounds isn't that bad.

15 pounds seems awfully light thinking.gif
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