I’m not in the market for a new computer right now and probably won’t be for at least another year, but I spent a little time pricing out components for what could be considered a mid-range system. I wasn’t particularly surprised to see that the price came out to be the same as my last build, but with a significant boost in raw power and storage. My current rig is no slouch and can still handle just about everything that I throw at it, although it is beginning to gasp a little when I go crazy with the multitasking. That was difficult to imagine a few years ago when I was amazed at just how snappily it performed.
And there’s no way I’m getting a Mac. The additional cost is considerable and I can get just as much performance for several hundred dollars less, not to mention the fact that Windows 7 is just as shiny as OS X.
