Also, as many have pointed out, Dell can offer significant discounts over the phone.
To get 3 years from Apple you need to purchase the $249 Apple Care add-on. The Dell comes with a 3 year warranty vs.
#2010 mac mini review update#
Update 2: There's one more key difference in the specs. The Apple tax is there, but masked by the cheaper GPU.
#2010 mac mini review pro#
If deduct the street price for the graphics card from each machine, the Mac Pro ends up being $324 more expensive than the Dell. Update: Dell doesn't offer a Radeon HD 5770, instead you get a much more expensive FirePro V8700 graphics card. There’s effectively no “Apple tax” on the Mac Pro. I ran the same comparison in our first Mac Pro review and came out with similar results. You can obviously save a ton of money if you don’t need a dual-socket, eight-core beast but if you’re buying in this class of products Apple is price competitive. Other than that the two systems are similarly configured and there’s no real price premium for the Mac. The Dell comes with a more expensive video card since there wasn’t an option for a Radeon HD 5770 class part. Includes Corsair Obsidian 700D case at $249.99, Antec 750W PSU, ASUS Z8NA-D6C Motherboard at $259.99 For the most part Apple was priced identically if not cheaper than Dell and HP for both the single and dual-socket Mac Pros:Įstimating the Apple Tax on the 2010 Mac ProĢ x Xeon E5620 (2.4GHz quad-core 12MB 元) I shopped around Dell and HP’s websites to see if I could find similarly configured systems to the new Mac Pro. Of course there are build to order options in between all three of them.ĭespite the high cost of entry, historically the Apple tax has been nonexistent on the Mac Pro. While there were only two configurations for the Mac Pro (4 and 8 core), Westmere adds a third model: a 12-core Mac Pro priced at $4999. This summer Apple updated the hardware to Westmere, Intel’s current 32nm architecture.
#2010 mac mini review upgrade#
It started with a dual-socket Conroe based Xeon, later saw an upgrade to Clovertown and then in 2009 moved to Nehalem. The Mac Pro was born after Apple decided to migrate to Intel based CPUs. The specs have of course improved tremendously year over year. Since its introduction in 2006 the Mac Pro lineup starts at $2499: I spend all of this time talking about price because the Mac Pro isn’t cheap. If you want something high performance without an integrated display but more affordable than the Mac Pro then there’s always the Hackintosh route. The Mac mini at the low end of the OS X scale, the iMac in the middle and the Mac Pro up top. This leaves us with the current product lineup. From Apple’s perspective this probably harms the overall user experience (what if a customer buys an inferior display and uses it with a Mac?) and it only allows Apple to realize profit on a computer, not a computer + display.
A standard Mac could potentially drive customers away from the iMac and into a Mac + cheap monitor configuration. There’s also the issue of cannibalization. At lower price points it’s difficult to justify the Apple tax, thus driving margins lower and ultimately impacting stock price. Apple has refused to entertain the idea for what I can only assume are a number of reasons. A decent desktop that fills the $1000 - $2000 price range. These days, the Mac Pro is basically the un-Mac.įor years users have argued that Apple needs a standard Mac. It’s the fastest Mac you can buy and it's a desktop.
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