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Originally Posted by willravel
Paper gains ≠ being a fan. That's the bottom line.
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Last time the Cubs made the playoffs, the company a friend worked for sold their season ticket play off seats for 5 times the cost of the season tickets.
Was that an investment?
Likewise if you sold that stock, would the company change direction? Does what you do with it really matter? No, you are not 'apple' you are just a guy with some stock.
Perhaps you should have disclosed that information before offering advice on a PC as well if you are a 'we'. Would you accept advice from someone on an issue if they had a financial stake in that advice?
But most importantly, lighten up Francis. After I posted I thought to myself, I bet he will say he has stock in the company and there you went. I'm not sure if Haliburton is public stock, and I rather doubt Blackwater is but I'd love to get a couple of shares of both so I could use 'we' in tilted politics a lot.
But back to the topic at hand, the one issue not spoken of here has been price.
About 6 months ago I put together a 'uber' top of the line system with every bell and whistle possible, minus the quad core, only got the dual, for about 3500. This was a spare no expense machine with a terrabyte of HD, 4 gig top of the line ultra fast ram, geforce 8800 gtx (or whatever the better one is, I forget) video etc, fastest motherboard in exsistance, blah blah blah. Its a beast. At the time the closest thing I could find in a mac was about 5500.
I also put together a more reasonable system for my wife (AMD) which is still very nice for about $1000. Comparable mac systems were about 2700 at the time.
So if price is part of the equation, I'd go with a PC.