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The following article is reprinted from PC World.

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Okay, enough of that. I’m not interested in writing another “Macs are great, Windows computers are dog meat” religious conversion story. I’ve been using both Macs and Windows PCs for years. Each has its pros and cons.

Instead, I’m interested in addressing the lingering concern about Macs: They’re more expensive than comparable Windows machines.

So I decided to see if this concern is valid. I didn’t perform an exhaustive, detailed survey. Rather, I compared the specs and prices of three current Apple laptops—the MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro—against their likely Windows laptop competitors. (Keep in mind computer prices and specs change often. Prices and specs mentioned in this article were accurate as of 6/20/08.) Here’s what I found.

MacBook vs. Dell XPS M1330

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The MacBook is Apple’s most mainstream laptop, and Dell’s XPS M1330 seems to be a reasonable counterpart. Both have 13.3-inch displays and built-in Webcams, and are aimed at general-purpose users who like multimedia features.

I configured online a MacBook and Dell XPS M1330 with specs as closely matched as possible. Both had 2GB of memory, a 160GB hard drive running at 5400 rpm, a 2.4-GHz Intel Core Duo 2 processor, Intel integrated graphics media accelerator (X3100), and Bluetooth 2.0. I chose the Dell 56Whr battery option (an extra US$79), which is comparable to the MacBook’s standard 55Whr battery. I also added the $99 optional bundle of Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements to the Dell laptop. The MacBook ships with Apple’s iPhoto and iMovie applications, part of its iLife suite, at no extra cost.

The bottom line: The Dell laptop that I configured cost $1,308. The MacBook was $1,299.

Worth noting: When I upgraded the hard drive in both computers to 250GB, the Dell laptop cost $1,358 and the MacBook, $1,399, tipping the balance slightly in Dell’s favor. Also, Dell offers more configuration options than does Apple.

Price advantage: Apple, by a hair.

MacBook Air vs. Lenovo ThinkPad X300

Lenovo has gone head-to-head with Apple with its ultra-thin ThinkPad X300, going so far as to creating a TV ad spoofing the MacBook Air. The ThinkPad X300, compared to the Air, is a “no-compromise ultraportable,” Lenovo’s ad claims. Our reviewer agreed. Darren Gladstone wrote: “What the ThinkPad X300 lacks in style, compared with the Air, it more than makes up for with better features and more functionality.”

It seemed fitting to compare the Air to the X300 in configurations as closely matched as possible. Still, there were differences. When I configured these systems, the X300 was available only with an Intel Core 2 Duo chip at 1.2 GHz, while the Air could be configured with 1.6-GHz or 1.8-GHz versions of the Intel chip. In the X300’s favor, that laptop can be configured with a built-in optical drive, but not the Air.

Here’s what my configurations of both laptops had in common: a 13.3-inch display, 2GB of memory, light weight (the ThinkPad X300 weighs about 3.4 pounds vs. the Air’s 3 pounds), a built-in Webcam, and a 64GB solid-state drive.

The bottom line: The X300 cost $2612 as of 6/20/08. Add $99 for Adobe’s photo and video editing software and the total cost was $2711. In comparison, an Air with the 64GB solid-state drive is $3098. Add another $99 for an external optical drive and the Air costs $3197, or $486 more than the X300.

Worth noting: When I configured these two systems, Lenovo had a “limited-time offer” of 20 percent off the X300. Without the discount, the X300 I configured would have been $3,370, plus $99 for the Adobe software, or $3,469. That’s $272 more than the Air. Also, if you’re not wedded to a solid-state drive, you can buy an Air with an 80GB-hard drive for $1,799. Add the $99 external drive, and this Air costs $1,898 compared to the X300’s discounted total of $2711. That’s a difference in the Air’s favor of $813 with Lenovo’s 20 percent-off discount and a whopping $1,571 without it. Also, a standard hard drive is not an option with the X300.

Price advantage: The X300, but only if you get the discount. If you don’t, the Air gets the nod.

MacBook Pro vs. HP’s Compaq 8710w Mobile Workstation

As its name implies, Apple’s MacBook Pro is designed for professional users. It’s a particular favorite among still image and video editors as well. So I compared it to HP’s Compaq 8710w Mobile Workstation, also built for professionals.

My configurations had this in common: 17-inch displays with 1,680-by-1,050 pixel resolution, dedicated graphics cards, 250GB hard drives at 5,400 rpm, 2GB of memory, and 2.6-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors.

There were some differences, of course. For example, the HP computer features a biometric fingerprint scanner, which the MacBook Pro lacks.

The bottom line: The MacBook Pro that I configured was $3,049. The HP Compaq 8710w was $3,561. Adding the Adobe image and video editing software brings it to $3,661. The HP Compaq 8710w came standard with a three-year HP extended warranty. A similar warranty from Apple costs an extra $349. If you factor that in, the price difference makes the MacBook Pro just $263 less than the HP notebook.

Worth noting: HP offers similarly configured laptops marketed to consumers for less. For example, I configured an HP dv9700t for consumers with specs similar to the MacBook Pro and the HP Compaq 8710w for $1,818 (I configured this system on July 7, so it may not provide an apples-to-apples price and spec comparison to the systems I configured on June 20.) The dv9700t I configured didn’t include an extended warranty, however, which would have added $249 or $349, depending upon the warranty option chosen.

Price advantage: The MacBook Pro.

Other considerations

Price aside, there are other factors in the Mac vs. Windows debate. Among them:

• Windows computers are perpetual targets for spyware and viruses. Macs are targeted, too, but not to the same degree.
• The Mac OS and Apple computers both come from the same company. While Macs aren’t trouble free, you’re less likely to experience as many unexplainable crashes and incompatibilities as you might on a Windows PC.
• Apple has earned top scores from PC World readers in reliability and service. See “Laptop Buying Tips, Part 1,” for more detail
• The Mac OS X Leopard is a clever, nimble operating system and a pleasure to use. Windows Vista is a behemoth. While not the demon it’s often made out to be, it ain’t the Mac OS, either.
• Apple laptops have thoughtful design touches, such as keyboards that illuminate automatically in dim lighting.
• There are many more laptop choices in the Windows world, and at a greater variety of price points.
• There are still plenty of software applications available for Windows only. (You can run Windows on Macs, of course, using Apple’s Boot camp, which is included in Mac OS X Leopard, or a third-party virtualization program such as Parallels Desktop for Mac (about $68 online).

Adding it all up

Don’t buy into the old argument that Mac laptops are categorically more expensive than Windows machines. Sometimes that’s true—but they’re often on par with, or cost less than, their closest Windows laptop equivalents.

[PC World contributing editor James A. Martin offers tools, tips, and product recommendations to help you make the most of computing on the go. Martin is also author of the Traveler 2.0 blog. Sign up to have the Mobile Computing Newsletter e-mailed to you each week.]

The Macintosh SE is a personal computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer, from March 1987^[1] to October 1990. It marked a significant improvement on the Macintosh Plus design and was introduced by Apple at the same time as the Macintosh II.

The SE retains the same Compact Macintosh form factor as the original Macintosh computer introduced three years earlier and uses the same design language used by the Macintosh II. An enhanced model, the SE/30, was introduced in January 1989; sales of the original SE continued. The Macintosh SE was updated in August 1989 to include a SuperDrive, with this updated version being called the 'Macintosh SE FDHD' and later the 'Macintosh SE SuperDrive'. The Macintosh SE was replaced with the Macintosh Classic, a very similar model which retained the same central processing unit and form factor, but at a lower price point.

Overview[edit]

The Macintosh SE was introduced at the AppleWorld conference in Los Angeles on March 2, 1987. The 'SE' is an acronym for 'System Expansion'.^[2] Its notable new features, compared to its similar predecessor, the Macintosh Plus, were:

• First compact Macintosh with an internal drive bay for a hard disk (originally 20 MB or 40 MB) or a second floppy drive.
• First compact Macintosh that featured an expansion slot.
• First Macintosh to support the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB), previously only available on the Apple IIGS, for keyboard and mouse connections.
• Improved SCSI support with faster data throughput and a standard 50-pin internal SCSI connector.
• Better reliability and longer life expectancy (15 years of continuous use)^[3] due to the addition of a cooling fan.
• Upgraded video circuitry that results in a lower percentage of CPU time being spent drawing the screen. In practice this results in a 10-20 percent performance improvement.^[4]
• Additional fonts and kerning routines in the Toolbox ROM^[3]
• Disk First Aid is included on the system disk

The SE and Macintosh II were the first Apple computers since the Apple I to be sold without a keyboard. Instead the customer was offered the choice of the new ADB Apple Keyboard or the Apple Extended Keyboard.

Apple produced ten SEs with transparent cases as prototypes for promotional shots and employees. They are extremely rare and command a premium price for collectors.^[5]

Operating system[edit]

The Macintosh SE shipped with System 4.0 and Finder 5.4; this version is specific to this computer.^[6] (The Macintosh II, which was announced at the same time but shipped a month later, includes System 4.1 and Finder 5.5.) The README file included with the installation disks for the SE and II is the first place Apple ever used the term 'Macintosh System Software', and after 1998 these two versions were retroactively given the name 'Macintosh System Software 2.0.1'.^[7]

Hardware[edit]

Processor: Motorola 68000, 8 MHz, with an 8 MHz system bus and a 16-bit data path

RAM: The SE came with 1 MB of RAM as standard, and is expandable to 4 MB. The logic board has four 30-pin SIMM slots; memory must be installed in pairs and must be 150 ns or faster.

Video: The built-in 512 × 342 monochrome screen uses 21,888 bytes of main memory as video memory.

Storage: The SE can accommodate either one or two floppy drives, or a floppy drive and a hard drive. After-market brackets were designed to allow the SE to accommodate two floppy drives as well as a hard drive, however it was not a configuration supported by Apple. In addition an external floppy disk drive may also be connected, making the SE the only Macintosh besides the Macintosh Portable which could support three floppy drives, though its increased storage, RAM capacity and optional internal hard drive rendered the external drives less of a necessity than for its predecessors. Single-floppy SE models also featured a drive-access light in the spot where the second floppy drive would be. Hard-drive equipped models came with a 20 MB SCSI hard disk.

Battery: Soldered into the logic board is a 3.6 V 1/2AA lithium battery, which must be present in order for basic settings to persist between power cycles. Macintosh SE machines which have sat for a long time have experienced battery corrosion and leakage, resulting in a damaged case and logic board.

Expansion: A Processor Direct Slot on the logic board allows for expansion cards, such as accelerators, to be installed. The SE can be upgraded to 50 MHz and more than 5 MB with the MicroMac accelerators. In the past other accelerators were also available such as the Sonnet Allegro. Since installing a card required opening the computer's case and exposing the user to high voltages from the internal CRT, Apple recommended that only authorized Apple dealers install the cards; the case was sealed with then-uncommon Torx screws.

Upgrades: After Apple introduced the Macintosh SE/30 in January, 1989, a logic board upgrade was sold by Apple dealers for US$1,699 as a high-cost upgrade for the SE, consisting of a new SE/30 motherboard, case front and internal chassis to accommodate the upgrade components.

ROM/Easter egg: The SE ROM size increased from 64 KB in the original Mac (and 128 KB in the Mac Plus) to 256 KB, which allowed the development team to include an Easter Egg hidden in the ROMs. By jumping to address 0x41D89A (or reading from the ROM chips), it is possible to display four images of the engineering team.^[8][9]

Models[edit]

Introduced March 2, 1987:

• Macintosh SE^[10] with 1 Mbyte RAM and two 800k drives
• Macintosh SE with 1 Mbyte RAM, one 800k drive and 20 MB hard disk.

Introduced August 1, 1988:

• Macintosh SE 1/40: The name of the Macintosh SE with a 40 MB hard disk in place of 20 MB.

Introduced August 1, 1989:

• Macintosh SE FDHD: Includes the new SuperDrive, a floppy disk drive that can handle 1.4 MB High Density (HD) floppy disks. FDHD is an acronym for 'Floppy Disk High Density'; later some Macintosh SE FDHDs were labeled Macintosh SE SuperDrive, to conform to Apple's marketing change with respect to their new drive. High-density floppies would become the de facto standard on both the Macintosh and PC computers from then on. An upgrade kit was sold for the original Macintosh SE which included new ROM chips and a new disk controller chip, to replace the originals.^[11]

Timeline of compact Macintosh models

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Joel West (March 2, 1987). 'Macintosh II and Macintosh SE announced'. Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac. Usenet:2790@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
2. ^Goodin, Sue; Wilson, Dave (April 1987). 'Programming the New Macs'. Vol. 3 no. 5. MacTech.Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
3. ^ ^ab'How the SE Really Differs'. MacWorld Magazine. May 1987. p. 116.
4. ^'Vectronic's Macintosh SE'.
5. ^'Transparent Macintosh SE'. Low End Mac. Retrieved February 8, 2007.
6. ^'Macintosh hardware releases'. earlymacintosh.org.
7. ^'Macintosh: System Software Version History'.
8. ^'Macintosh Plus Easter Egg - Image of Designers in ROM'. September 12, 1999. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
9. ^Trammell Hudson (August 21, 2012). 'Ghosts in the ROM'. NYC Resistor. Archived from the original on February 17, 2015. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
10. ^'Macintosh SE: Technical Specifications'. Apple.
11. ^'Macintosh SE FDHD: Technical Specifications'. Apple.

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External links[edit]

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• The Mac SE Support Pages Repair & upgrade advice.
• Mac SE Low End Mac

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