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Old 11-14-2011, 11:03 AM   #1
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Yawn. They use a few more quality components but otherwise it is the same stuff and hard to justify on price at 2-3x as much money.

Processors, Hard Drives, Video Cards, Chipsets, Screens are all the same. Better construction in some of the non electronic components perhaps - the unibody is a thing of beauty for example.

No, truth is Apple has done a fine job building a closed source operating system GUI (Wrapper) on top of a different variations of Unix. And they charge a lot for it - all the way to the bank.

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Old 11-15-2011, 10:56 AM   #2
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Here ya go TDF...



Although not going to lie, leaning towards Apple. Keeping my eye out for refurbs at the moment.
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Old 11-16-2011, 04:26 PM   #3
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You must be a PC repairman.
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Old 11-17-2011, 06:02 AM   #4
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You must be a PC repairman.
Use to be....moved on....

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