18-04-2008 22:42

Ok, so you've got someone who's deciding between the Gateway One ZX190, and the 20" iMac. 
 
They're not specific about the operating system, as long as it runs word, and is a productive environment. 
 
Well, they'll compare the price. At comparable specs, the iMac is cheaper by about $50.00. This is without the necessary antivirus software that Gateway recommends getting with the PC. 
 
Also, with a 500GB HD in the iMac as opposed to the One's 400GB HD. I could have chosen the 320 GB for the iMac, but then it'd be even cheaper than the One. 
 
Here's the specs (with the necessary Anti Virus Software for the PC): 
 
20" iMac: 
2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 
2GB 667MHz DDR RAM 
500GB 7200rpm Serial ATA Drive 
Mouse 
Keyboard 
OSX 10.5 Leopard 
One Year Warranty 
Total = $1,448 
 
19" Gateway One ZX190: 
1.50GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 
2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM 
400GB 7200rpm Serial ATA II HD 
Norton Internet Security 2008 (15 Month Subscription) 
One Year Warranty 
Keyboard 
Mouse 
Windows Vista Home Edition 
Total = $1,485.97 
 
Hmm, the iMac is cheaper... and easier to maintain because you don't have to worry about an antivirus program subscription. The Gateway also has a slower processor. You can't even get a faster processor with it. 
 
As far as the general public goes, iMac FTW.

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18-04-2008 12:36

Uh... gee. I'm not sure if you read the entire article, either here or at PM. Maybe if you look deeper than the first three lines you would understand a little bit better. 
 
1. I blatantly declare a bias. I quote myself, "Yes, we are a website that deals with main Macintosh so we are going to be a little biased. " 
 
2a. Compare apples to oranges. Well first off we didn't do the comparison. Second let's compare, dollars to dollars along side form to form. Makes more sense right? That's what PM did. They compared money and form to money and form. 
 
3. The Mac is the synergy of the hardware and software. A Windows PC is hardware and software trying to work together. 
 
4. Nobody was trying to hide the differences in the computers. From the PM article, "Our computers were closely matched, but in the interest of full disclosure, we’ll spit out the caveats: The Gateway One PC had a processor that runs 400 MHz slower than its iMac competitor (not a heck of a difference in this age of dual-core chips), but it also had two extra gigabytes of DDR2 memory. In the laptop category, our Asus M51 had a 2.2 GHz processor, compared to 2.4 GHz for our MacBook. But the Asus had a larger screen, a more sophisticated graphics card and an extra gig of RAM. " 
 
5. You want to complain about hardware? Did you read the article at Popular Mechanics? Seriously, did you. I don't think you did. If you read the article you would see that they DID compare the OS's on the same machines after the test, and they published results along side the other ones. You know what the final verdict still was. 
 
The Mac Won. 
 
Please read the article before you comment. 
 
If you really don't want to read it, at least look at the fourth page, where they show the results of the Mac running Leopard & Vista compared to the Gateweay Vista machine.

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18-04-2008 09:22

"The Macs won hands down. Granted the systems were different configurations (one had more RAM, one had a faster processor), but that was not the point." 
 
Wow. You compared apples to oranges and then tryed to say the orange was a better apple. Congratulations, you are truly oblivious to your supposedly non-existant bias.  
 
I don't particularly care for ANY current OS solution, so I am completely unbiased. 
 
But, to say that Leopard is a better OS based on the FORM-FACTOR of the hardware it runs on...is just simply the ramblings of somebody not interested in actual fact. 
 
The ONLY way to compare SOFTWARE solutions (be it an OS or anything else), is on IDENTICAL hardware. Otherwise, the hardware inevitably is the differentiating variable of the equation.

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