Which accessories are over priced?
1) Printers?
2) Scanners?
3) Keyboard?
4) Mouse?
5) RAM?
6) hard disk?
7) Optical drive?
Unless you are referring to
1) Apple's Wireless cards
2) Apple's built-in BT
Yes they are more pricey than PC equivalents but you know they work for sure and the update patches are reliable mostly.
Unless one wants to complete the Mac look and everything must have Apple logo or Made-for-Mac logo, otherwise most accessories are not overpriced. And if you buy from an Apple retailer you are asking to be over-charged, all the Mac die hards buy they stuff from Sim Lim Sq most of the time.
I strongly suggest a visit to
http://www.macusersg.org/forums/ to ask about overpriced accessories and where to get those cheaper Mac accessories
Again to each his/her own
yes, to each his own & i do like choices. thx for the link, i'm sure it'll benefit many mac users here.
my point is: if the display setup is done properly, no diff from mac or xp.
for eg, jeanie case. for the same money, i can look for EIZO or NEC pro line of 24" LCDs, maybe even Dell 24" is not too bad. the main thing is, after paying so much for a screen, the setup has to be proper.
i run 2 HDD, 1 for OS & 1 for data/scratch disk. i can't do that on the iMac & Xeon mac is overkill, ext storage is slower than internal SATA interface unless its eSATA, but iMac doesn't have that. i also have 1 burner, which i gladly chose a Plextor for its burn quality, & a DVD-Rom drive juz for those "difficult" discs. even with a mac pro, i can't choose my burner & have an additional optical disc drive (may it be ROM only or burner).
i also like the convenience of ejecting a disc when the drive stop responding via the eject button. or worse case, need a little pin to poke inside the drive's hole to eject the disc tray. not sure if there's an easier way to do this on a mac, but last time i had this problem, i need to restart the whole thing juz to eject the disc out.
sorry if i sound like bashing mac but i'm not. my perception is, anyone with a personal computer should be able to personalise it. this is to cater to unique individual usage. right now, if i want to run RAID, i can choose Adaptec or 3Ware RAID cards, SATA or SCSI, but for mac, so far i know only ATTO runs smoothly & not sure if they have SATA solutions. if i can help it, more choices is good for me. :lovegrin: