More Bad News for Dell: Mac Pro Defeats Dell Equivalent

With all the news of Dell laptops blowing up, you can’t help but wonder if Dell is going to get back up from all the problems it’s facing this year.

Well, this isn’t the news that’s going to turn the tide of bad press they’re getting. In fact, it doesn’t look good for Dell on both the laptop AND desktop side of the business.

In an Associated Press review on Yahoo by Robert Weston, the Mac Pro defeated a Dell desktop PC with similar specs on both price and functionality.

According to the review, there is more than a $900 difference between a low-end Mac Pro and a Dell Precision 490 with identical configurations, and the difference in price gets even better for Apple with more upgrades.

Borrowing a high-end Mac Pro with a pair of 3 gigahertz processors, an Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 graphics card with 512 megabytes of video memory and four 500 gig hard drives and 4 gigs of system memory, Weston compared the Mac Pro setup to a Dell Precision 690 with the same specs. The result? $7449 vs $8534 in Apple’s favor.

Not only that, but there is a large amount of easy customizability. As Weston notes, “It comes with two optical drive bays, four PCI Express expansion slots and four hard drive bays. The computer also can handle up to 16 gigabytes of system memory.” The changing of hard drives is also a breeze with the Mac Pro – just pull out a tray, take out one drive, stick another one in, and push it back! No cables and a ton of ports for different uses makes it versatile, with the ease of use only making it more enticing.

Dell has a lot of catching up to do, or they may just get completely decimated by the competition. First, they have to stop their products from blowing up, then they have improve their tech and their pricing scheme. Then they have to pray for a bigger miracle. Let’s hope something good happens for Dell soon, before the final nail gets driven into their coffin.

Speaking of nails and coffins… You may want to know that the Mac Pro can just as easily run Windows as a Mac OS. Another point to Apple.

With all the news of Dell laptops blowing up, you can’t help but wonder if Dell is going to get back up from all the problems it’s facing this year.

Well, this isn’t the news that’s going to turn the tide of bad press they’re getting. In fact, it doesn’t look good for Dell on both the laptop AND desktop side of the business.

In an Associated Press review on Yahoo by Robert Weston, the Mac Pro defeated a Dell desktop PC with similar specs on both price and functionality.

According to the review, there is more than a $900 difference between a low-end Mac Pro and a Dell Precision 490 with identical configurations, and the difference in price gets even better for Apple with more upgrades.

Borrowing a high-end Mac Pro with a pair of 3 gigahertz processors, an Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 graphics card with 512 megabytes of video memory and four 500 gig hard drives and 4 gigs of system memory, Weston compared the Mac Pro setup to a Dell Precision 690 with the same specs. The result? $7449 vs $8534 in Apple’s favor.

Not only that, but there is a large amount of easy customizability. As Weston notes, “It comes with two optical drive bays, four PCI Express expansion slots and four hard drive bays. The computer also can handle up to 16 gigabytes of system memory.” The changing of hard drives is also a breeze with the Mac Pro – just pull out a tray, take out one drive, stick another one in, and push it back! No cables and a ton of ports for different uses makes it versatile, with the ease of use only making it more enticing.

Dell has a lot of catching up to do, or they may just get completely decimated by the competition. First, they have to stop their products from blowing up, then they have improve their tech and their pricing scheme. Then they have to pray for a bigger miracle. Let’s hope something good happens for Dell soon, before the final nail gets driven into their coffin.

Speaking of nails and coffins… You may want to know that the Mac Pro can just as easily run Windows as a Mac OS. Another point to Apple.