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Weblog:   Apple's Paradox - Go Intel and Keep the Hardware
Subject:   How will Apple keep a hardware advantage
Date:   2005-11-10 11:58:24
From:   JulesLt
I think one of the most frustrating things about the PC market has been the fact that people think computers are 'just' a collection of standard components, when of course us techies know that the same graphics card and CPU can behave differently in different machines.


Of course, people look at memory size, CPU and now graphics RAM and think that tells them everything. As a rough guide I guess it isn't bad. It certainly tells you how one machine from the same supplier stacks up against another.


Even aside from issues like RAM speed and front-side-bus and PCI-X, your bog standard PC may contain a random mix of drivers in a combination that's not been tested by Microsoft - and if you're really unlucky, not even been tested by the company making the PC.


Provided Apple can maintain that 'end-to-end' quality a lot of people will continue to pay the premium.


The funniest thing though are those people who would buy an Apple machine JUST to run Windows on it - they just want the 'designer'-ness of it. The crazy thing is that it might actually turn out to be a total dog at running Windows. Compare the minimum specs for Tiger and Vista. Are Apple really going to compromise their design to stick in a beefier graphics card for Vista users?