NEED TO BUY APPLE DESKTOP, WHICH ONE SHOULD I BUY

[big o]

My boy needs it for school and cruising the net etc.

Why apple who knows but that's what him and the wife want.

Which one should I buy and where and how much should I spend

cheers

Owen

[Sfidz]

Either or from what I posted below.
Info ripped from Apple website.
Doesn't particularly matter where you purchase it from as it will pretty much always be same price across the board.
Depends what you want to spend and if you want a 22" or a 27" display.

27-inch: 2.9GHz
2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i5
Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
8GB (two 4GB) memory
1TB hard drive1
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M with 512MB
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A$ 1,999.00

21.5-inch: 2.7GHz
2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5
Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz
8GB (two 4GB) memory
1TB hard drive1
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M with 512MB
Available to ship:
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A$ 1,429.00

[mARC]

You're in a house full of hipsters get out whilst you still can :D

[Niva]

Buy a HP Z1 and install a virtual machine with the Mac OS on it... say nothing and enjoy windows when they all go to bed

[sensei_]

wait for JB/DSE for 10% specials. then head off to apple store for price matching.

get the 27" because small screens arent any fun

[MMM]

I would get a MacBook.

[ossie_21]

Can't remember which store, but I had a catalogue in the mail come last week that has a special on Apple computers

I hope this information helps

Try google & see what you find, possibly Dick Smith

[Alt_F4]

Apple is about to release their next gen of desktops & laptops, either wait for the new gear or haggle the price down to reflect this.
Also I would get a laptop, their more practical in many respects for not really much more cash.
MacBook Pro if the budget allows

[Crispymk2]

Haggle on Apple products? Good luck!

Pretty much price fixing without calling it price fixing. Margins are so small that no one can discount much.

[Alt_F4]

Prices are flexible for end of line stuff, but yes, you'll get fuck all of new stuff, even staff get nothing worth talking about discount wise.

[lathiat]

If you wait a little...

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More seriously though if you can spend a little more cash, go the iMac (~$1400-$2000). If you want to go cheaper, a Mac Mini with a cheap PC monitor will work nicely also (~$1000)

No need to go for the higher specs, so it's really just a choice between base mac mini, 21.5" or 27"

[TheChad]

it also depends on what he'll be doing on it? if he's at highschool doing and that's what he needs then you will be in for 2k+, but if you just need a home computer, and they want apple, well yeah, anything will do.
Basically paying 20% at a minimum for the symbol though, when you compare specs across the board

[SircatmaN]

You should seriously educate your family on computers, don't buy apple because its the "cool thing". You could buy/build a dual screen powerhouse that you wouldn't need to update for years for the extraordinary prices that Apple charge for their outdated technology.
If it absolutely HAS to be an Apple product, get prepared to pay more for a lot less.

[shifted]

When do the student rebates run for apple products?

Or pick up a refurbed unit off of the apple website?

[Sfidz]

So many PC fanboi's.
He said they want apple so why say otherwise? Owen obviously isn't partial to Apple but the family wants one so thats how it is.

[mitchsterbrau]

I teach on Macs, in graphic design and multimedia labs.
Sadly for most of my [animation] students, I recommend buying a PC.
Mainly for the grunt needed to push 3D, and the amount of software available for development in this area.

But if you're stuck for choice, we used to get great student 'packages' thru Murdoch uni computer shop.
Easy to buy exactly the software students need there, at student prices.
Although buying a desktop isn't very practical for most students, and he'll get more use out of it if you buy a similiar spec laptop.
:)

[SircatmaN]

So many PC fanboi's.
He said they want apple so why say otherwise? Owen obviously isn't partial to Apple but the family wants one so thats how it is.

Because they are shit and overpriced. We don't want him to waste his money on an inferior product. We care about our community here on Antilag.com.

[RICEY]

My kid had to have an iPad for school.

Why are schools so pro Apple?

[eaglesfandavid]

My kid had to have an iPad for school.

Why are schools so pro Apple?
virus scaremongering?

[SircatmaN]

My kid had to have an iPad for school.

Why are schools so pro Apple?

Apple pays them to use their equipment. Its much like the way Cigarette companies used to advertise to children. Get them young and you'll have them for life. Then release an "updated" version of what you released previously every 6 months so that they think they need to buy it at full retail.
My daughter is banned from Apple products. Shes free to use Windows, Linux, Android or whatever else she wants. I want to make sure she has an understanding of how computers work and not be spoon fed the basics which will limit her in the future.

[n1ghth4wk]

Apples and oranges...

I've had a 27" iMac for about 4 years now, and it has been brilliant. I have also owned windows computers, but I prefer the Mac. Then again, I couldn't give a fuck about rebuilding components inside the machine and the only game I really played on it was WoW. Any other games I would just run dual boot into windows 7, although it doesn't not operate as fantastically.

I'm lucky if a single program freezes once every 2 months. On windows, something would freeze up every 2 hours. Gaming dedicated machine, go windows. If its just for schoolwork, go with whichever you prefer as they both do the job perfectly fine. Convert external hard drive to fat-32 format and you can use it on both windows and Mac.

[fourseven]

Apple pays them to use their equipment. Its much like the way Cigarette companies used to advertise to children. Get them young and you'll have them for life. Then release an "updated" version of what you released previously every 6 months so that they think they need to buy it at full retail.

Rubbish.

Entire IT departments have been made redundant because of Mac infrastructure. Ease of use, long term support contracts, better volume pricing and licensing than the likes of Microsoft, IBM, Dell etc all contribute to such a large uptake of Apple equipment in education institutions. Apple certainly don't pay anyone to use their products.

[SircatmaN]

LOL what a load of rubbish. I don't know what's worse... your post here or the rubbish about Microsoft, and not publishers, setting pricing for DLC on Xbox Live in your E3 thread posts.

From now on, you should post a source for your posts xox

Entire IT departments have been made redundant because of Mac infrastructure. Ease of use, long term support contracts, better volume pricing and licensing than the likes of Microsoft, IBM, Dell etc all contribute to such a large uptake of Apple equipment in education institutions. Apple certainly don't pay anyone to use their products.

If you read my post in the things that annoy me thread you will see my jimmies are overly rustled.

I didn't realize I was working towards a degree here, sorry professor - I'll use the correct citations next time.

[fourseven]

LOL you take your gaming way too seriously.

Have to agree with you on the Gillard topic though, so carry on!

[sensei_]

Convert external hard drive to fat-32 format and you can use it on both windows and Mac.

alternatively you could also use a spftware like paragon NTFS for mac to read NTFS drives no worries. there are also free versions of NTFS readers for mac.

[Madhav]

$699 Mac mini will do the trick. From there just get any old 24" 1080p monitor ($120-150), a mouse and keyboard and you are ready to go. Will cost less than $800 all up.

Also it is piss easy to add an additional solid state hard drive to run the OS from and the whole system will run a lot faster.