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Originally Posted by hal314  Never buy a Mac for performance. (also, never buy a laptop for performance.)
Apple is involved in all steps of building their machines, as a result the tend to work more "smoothly", along with that being part of the point of the brand. You pay for that.
It's like a Cadillac vs. Ford (or BMV vs. VW, or you get the picture). |
Cars make poor analogys in this case.
Things "work smoothly" due to very little hardware configuration possibilities, hence the attraction to consoles for a lot of people.
22 or 23 inch IPS panels can be had for under $300 in the LG brand. From what I understand LG supplies their panels to Dell for the Uxxxx series.