Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Parsons Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.hacker,alt.privacy.anon-server Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Date: 5 Oct 2015 13:08:26 GMT Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <86549329f10d815d2e5922dee68cf94a@anemone.mooo.com> <210920151816339085%nospam@nospam.invalid> <210920151849448520%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151828504734%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151852561506%nospam@nospam.invalid> <041020151911207774%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net MOC0wlKSHBhVe2CprbC4DQ7LYSHgrdmhp2Vt2FNQ7fM+IXJKOW Cancel-Lock: sha1:Bbr+3mIkic8rEOv3/NknKa6mO/M= User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.freeware:244705 comp.sys.mac.system:81547 alt.hacker:8576 alt.privacy.anon-server:45737 On Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:57:27 +0000, Jolly Roger wrote: > On 2015-10-05, Lloyd Parsons wrote: >> On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 19:58:59 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >> >>> nospam wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: >>> >>>> > pc-diy-style/3/> >>>> After tabulating all the major component costs (plus another $99.99 >>>> US for Windows 8 Pro), we are at a total of around $11,530.54 US >>>> using today's prices at retailers that actually stock the hardware. >>>> I'm not afraid to admit that compared to the asking price of $9,599 >>>> US, the new Mac Pro seems like one heckuva deal for these >>>> components. >>>> Everything is tested to work properly together (versus some of our >>>> unknown incompatibilities with this potential build), and a highly >>>> proprietary design that is small enough to fit into a carry on bag, >>>> with twice the amount of registered memory (32GB vs 64GB ECC). You >>>> simply can't build a smaller form factor PC that matches the Mac >>>> Pro today. >>> >>> That article seems to be comparing a Mac prebuilt against buying all >>> the PC parts yourself. >> >> so? Try buying a similar machine from another mfg. > > They often don't exist without compromises in the form of missing > hardware features. True. But you can make comparisons with something close. Maybe like USB- C vice Thunderbolt for instance. Unless I'm misremembering, there were some comparisons of the MacPro to a very few machines and the MP came out on top overall and was cheaper in most cases. At lower end of the scale, like MBP vs UltraBooks, there are many good comparisons that can be made and they generally show the price differentials are not much. The only part of the market that shows a wide disparity is at the low end since Apple really doesn't do anything there. -- Lloyd