by John Galt » Sun Jan 25, 2015 1:24 pm
my machine, which i built, cost me roughly 1k and is a year old. i have a i7 4770k. the best mac currently offers is a i7-4790k, and the similar machine i find with same ram, storage, roughly eq graphics (theirs is amd though and not sli so... mine is better) is 3499. free shipping though! marginal improvements today in 2015 a over something i built in 2013 and charging 3x as much is "quality"? please. the only improvement is that it has 5k monitor instead of my mere 4ks (plural though for me). now granted i did buy those after and they cost me 400 total, so perhaps it's slightly unfair of me to compare, but it's still an obscene upcharge on mac's part. they have like 50% profit margins. you're only lying to yourself about it
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