uh~ uh~ buy again!

Everybody knows about Moore’s Law. Not everybody knows about the corollary to Moore’s Law, which can be phrased as “The system you want will always cost X thousand dollars”. My value of X (in USD) has been around 5 for the last 20 years or so.

I just specced out my three fave systems (in Sing dollars): iMac, properly configured: S$4,784.60. Mac Pro: S$6,771.89. MacBook Pro: $4,988.60, for a fantasy shopping spree grand total of S$16,545.09. My wallet feels so much lighter, I think it just achieved orbit.

The only thing more expensive than buying a Mac is buying and maintaining a Windows PC – if your time is worth anything at all (not to mention frustration). Similarly-specced Windows server/desktop/notebook would run about $9-10K – with ~20 hours per month of maintenance work. At $50/hour, the Macs pay for themselves in that regard within SIX MONTHS. Much less, if you count the improved productivity and lower stress that comes from the Mac experience. (I say this after 20 years of developing for and managing large installations of Windows systems; I’ve measured my productivity during the last 2 years with a Mac, and it’s 3x my productivity with Windows.)

Jerr: I agreed with you on the frustration part, been through that with my computer’s graphics card, my brother’s graphics card hard drive and my gf motherboard!

Apple product are greet, but too expensive!