Is getting an iMac to play CloD a stupid idea?

[Vengeanze]

You drive a Hummer H3, lots of power, I drive a Maserati Quatroporte.
We both get from A to B. Just a question of preference.
Maybe not the best analogy but hope you get my point.

[jt_medina]

Originally Posted by Vengeanze

You drive a Hummer H3, lots of power, I drive a Maserati Quatroporte.
We both get from A to B. Just a question of preference.
Maybe not the best analogy but hope you get my point.

Not samething. Imac are not ferraries, that's what the advertising wants the crowd to think.

They are built with PC components with a way higher price and have less hardware per dollar.

I can tell you you'd be surprised that most of the IMac hardware would cost half the price on the PC with exactly the same quality. Yes, same quality. Because apple doesn't design the graphics card or the CPU, memory, PSU in fact apple doesn't even assemble it.

MSI, Gigabyte, ASUS, thermaltake, cooler master etc... that's what matters when you buy a machine.

I have been around computing since I was a kind and built myself almost every computer until bad times came to my life. I guess I can't fight the fact that most of the people can't/don't care to open up a computer case and really think what's really inside it.

[Vengeanze]

Originally Posted by jt_medina

Not samething. Imac are not ferraries, that's what the advertising wants the crowd to think.

They are built with PC components with a way higher price and have less hardware per dollar.

I can tell you you'd be surprised that most of the IMac hardware would cost half the price on the PC with exactly the same quality. Yes, same quality. Because apple doesn't design the graphics card or the CPU, memory, PSU in fact apple doesn't even assemble it.

MSI, Gigabyte, ASUS, thermaltake, cooler master etc... that's what matters when you buy a machine.

I have been around computing since I was a kind and built myself almost every computer until bad times came to my life. I guess I can't fight the fact that most of the people can't/don't care to open up a computer case and really think what's really inside it.

I'm fully aware that the hw in a mac is regular stuff that one can get much cheaper elsewhere.
Like you I've built computers most of my life but when I passed 40 my priorities changed. These days I'm going for simplicity and carefreeness.

I don't change oil on my car anymore even though I know perfectly how to. I drive it to a mechanic and let him do what he does best so I can do what I do best. I'll gladly pay the extra buck it'll cost me.

I have an insurance that if I get a flat tire I can call someone and within minutes this dude comes and change my tire. I'll gladly pay the extra buck it'll cost me.

I don't care reading in on the latest techniques, surfing trillions of PC retailers websites, arguing at Overclockers on how to cool my system, installing proggies so I can squeeze a couple of extra frames out of my g-card, figure out what PSU will drive my stuff, etc etc.
I'm content with going to ONE website and picking out a beautiful computer that fits my need. A week later it is delivered to my door. I plug in one cord and hit On.

[Georgio41]

What people fail to realise about Macs is yes internally they are the same as PC's, but there the similarity ends.
The Mac OS was always more robust than windows, until Win7 came along with their aqua interface, which incidentally the original OSX brought in about 10 years ago.
What is neat with a Mac is that the whole package is seamlessly integrated so open any of the bundled apps, like iDVD for instance and you can use any media on your machine for a pain-free experience.
At the end of the day it's a Ford/Chrysler thing so you go with what suits you best.
I also have built computers; the earliest being a scratch built Apple IIe back in the late 70's, but these days I just prefer the simplicity of using a silent, powerful machine/OS that gives me no grief and fits in with my lifestyle.