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Originally Posted by Sunnz  That's one of the main reason why I don't buy Macs for desktop... for laptops, fine, it is not like I'll be building my own and changing the motherboard anyway... but I do have my own hard disk, motherboard and cpu that I want to put on a Mac Pro, too bad that they happens to be the only components that you can't buy a new Mac Pro without!!!
So yea, till they let you choose the exact quantity of each component in their Mac Pro, I'll be getting one. |
How is this different from PCs manufactured from Dell, HP, Gateway, et al? You can't easily swap out the motherboard, especially on a Dell. And if by chance yuo ghappen to come across an OEM motherboard from someone like MSI or Asus, you're bound to only get one from that particular manufacturer and hope that it fits the dimensions of your computer. And even the CPU is a gamble sometimes, unless you know who manufactures that motherboard and then it's a matter of finding out what CPU is supported by it. This is not considering how voided your warranty would be if you did this.
As for hard drive, optical drives, and expansion slots, the Mac Pro and all generations of Pro-model Macs (Power Mac G5, Power Mac G4, Power Mac G3, all previous PCI Power Macs) are just as upgradeable and expandable as their PC counterparts. And not to mention all the third-party CPU upgrades there are for these systems, costing just as much as a brand-spankin'-new x86 processor or equal capability. So your reasoning is rather flawed when it comes to the Mac Pro and previous generations of the Macintosh towers.
Granted, the iMacs are still less upgradeable than the Mac Pro, but consider its directed market. Also consider that you can also upgrade the RAM and hard drive on those as well. Still a better option if you ask me.
