Testing the ‘Apple tax’: What would it cost to build a Windows version of the new Mac Pro?

In short, you get what you pay for.

BGR

The new Mac Pro is the most powerful and flexible computer Apple has ever created, and it’s also extremely expensive — or is it? With a price tag that can climb up around $10,000, Apple’s latest enterprise workhorse clearly isn’t cheap. For businesses with a need for all that muscle, however, is that steep price justifiable or is there a premium “Apple tax” that companies will have to pay? Shortly after the new Mac Pro was finally made available for purchase last week, one PC enthusiast set out to answer that question and in order to do so, he asked another one: How much would it cost to build a comparable Windows 8 machine?

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Google sincerely thinks that Google+ is the future of Google

Google+, the social layer to all Google services.

The Wolf Inside

HIS DARK SIDE

What are you afraid of?

Perhaps you are afraid of how good you really are?

 

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I JUST PEED MY PANTS BECAUSE MY ALBUM COMES OUT NEXT WEEK

Mary Lambert Sings

OK babes. Let’s be real. I’ve been real stinkin’ busy and haven’t had a heart to heart with you. So let’s catch the fuck up. Some bullet points of my last couple months:

* I signed to CAPITOL RECORDS in October and I get to do pretty much whatever I want, which is amazing because I want to do a lot of cool things that save humanity.

* The NEW YORK TIMES did a piece on me and it was front page of the Arts section and I may have carried it around with me for a month showing flight attendants, cab drivers, annoyed baristas, and other unsuspecting employees preoccupied with working.
ugh the nerve.

* My new EP comes out NEXT WEEK, on TUESDAY 12/17. It’s got some old tracks that are re-vamped and ready for radio and world domination, and a new track that will gut your insides and you’ll…

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2014 is the year of the internet of things—no, seriously, we mean it this time

Speedball 2 HD comes to Steam next month.

Shame it looks like it will be PC only.

StiGGy's Blog

This looks more like it – thumbs up for sticking with 2D instead that gawd awful 3D reboot came out a few years ago.

Speedball 2 is coming back to our gaming screens and with Jon Hare involved in this latest reboot here’s hoping the ‘ice-cream’ will be rich and full of all the good stuff us Speedball fans are craving for.

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