Maxed Out – AlienWare Aurora ALX vs Mac Pro
December 11th, 2009 | Author: Warren
While browsing the internet yesterday I found a string of comments about Mac and PC computers. Some people are saying that Mac sucks; some are saying PC sucks; a few are neutral with there comments, most of them giving reasons for their opinion. But since I had never owned a Mac (and don’t think I want one, well probably for multimedia purposes) I won’t be making any judgment. I have a few problems with my PC but, because I can solve most of these problems myself, I’ll be sticking with it.
With this debate between Mac and PC users, I decided to do a little survey, so I searched for the “most powerful Mac” and the “most powerful PC.” I did not find the “most powerful PC” so I customize on and also the Mac, and came up with these performance specifications.
Note: Only the displayed information is upgraded, all other features are standard (without Monitors).
AlienWare Aurora ALX |
Mac Pro |
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| Processor | Overclocked Intel® Core™ i7 975 Extreme (3.6GHz, 8MB Cache) | Two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon |
| Video Card | Dual ATI Radeon™ HD 5870, 2GB GDDR5 | 4x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB |
| Memory | 24GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz – (6x 4096MB) | 32GB (8×4GB) |
| Hard Drive | 2TB RAID 0 (2x 1TB SATA-II, 7,200 RPM, 32MB Cache HDDs) | 2TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s |
| Price | $7,049 | $11,099 |
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PC all the way
The 32GB memory and the two 2.93GHz Quad-Core process is impressive but I rather have the 2GB video card is what I'd go for. Straight PC