Not really... I built that computer because PC's are a better option then Mac's and because my own experience with apple has been pretty horrible...
We purchased a $4,000 apple quad core G5 a number of years ago and the machine was complete crap. There were a number of major design flaws in that model and they apple handled it was very poor. First of all they used "closed system water cooler" which are known by people in the know for lower performance and reliability issues. There were a lot of defective power supplies and motherboard issues in the model as well. The fan controller was software based and when the system was under a high load it would fail so the fans would not speed up to properly cool the system. We started having issues with the computer in less then a year. We must have gone to the apple store a half dozen times and each time they told us to reinstall the operating system. After it got to the point where we could not browse the web without a hardware panic (grey screen of gloom) I started doing research and found out that these type of issues were widespread. Thousands had the same issue and apple was well aware of it the whole time. What apple did about it was delete all the forum posts on their website relating to the issue so that people wouldn't catch on before their apple care expired (apples website is the most censored forum on the internet). We wasted so much time and money on that computer it is unreal. After the applecare expired they just told us we were SOL and to buy a new mac from them. The people at the apple store either new about the problem the whole time or were extremely and inexcusably ignorant of when it came to support of their machines. Apple burned me, big time!
After that I decided to do my own research and to build a quality computer on my own. I'm selling it now only because I need cash for an insane opportunity that I have to purchase 30+ large format lenses (mostly Rodenstock) for much less then wholesale.
I do honestly feel that apple computers are a rip off and that if people were more informed that they would not buy them.
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