Dell vs. Mac Pro pricing

By budda on Friday, August 11th, 2006 comments

The Mac Pro was unveiled at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WDCC) a couple of days ago. It's a formidable system, based around a two Intel Xeon 'Woodcrest' processor dual core system, similar to what Dell is offering within the Dell Precision 490 range for small businesses.

The results signify a relevant change total cost when compared to similarly outfitted machines:

Dual Core Intel Xeon 2GHz x 2 (4MB shared L2 cache)
Dell: $2,086.00 (with a $200 discount for small business)
Apple: $2,124.00

Dual Core Intel Xeon 2.66GHz x 2 (4MB shared L2 cache)
Dell: $2,866.00 (with a $200 discount for small business)
Apple: $2,424.00

Dual Core Intel Xeon 3GHz x 2 (4MB shared L2 cache)
Dell: $3,686.00 (with a $200 discount for small business)
Apple: $3,224.00

You can see Dell pips Apple by a tiny $38 for the 2GHz option, but then is whipped into shape by Apple with a $442 saving on the 2.66GHz option and a similarly large margin with the 3ghz processors - $462 per system.

With the price gap now closing and Macs now running OS X and Windows, it is conceivable that even more users will follow the exodus to Apple country.

Source: The Inquirer [via CrunchGear.com]