actually speed is relative to the machine, ofcourse a higher specd PC will perform faster than a base-specd mac, same as a flagship mac will smoke a base-specd PC.. so I believe the argument here is about the "price" but not the "speed" as both are machines benchmarked to perform accordingly to its intended use.
thus if we are going to talk about the reason why base specd macs are as expensive as a higher specd PC then the answer is already in page 1.. so I guess its really unnecessary to brand mac buyers as "those who dont know that PC's are faster".
My argument is about both Price and Performance.
Any PC user can buy a cpu for less than 20k, clock it to 5 Ghz, and easily smoke the fastest mac in the same year/generation.
My 8k worth PC can wipe the floor with the same generation Mac that sported Core2duos
If I were to do the same thing this year, I can just buy an i5 2500k for 8k pesos again, a good board for about 4k pesos and clock it to 5 Ghz with the total cost of only 12k
The total cost of my rig, excluding the 3 monitors and external videocard is about 8k
2,000 = unlock motherboard with onboard video
3,500 = AMD Athlon unlocked to Phenom B55 Quadcore
1,000 = 4GB DDR3 1333
1,300 = Coolermaster Hyper212 heatsink
0.000 = I already have harddrives
0.000 = I already have a case
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Total = 7,800
Some examples current generation (year2012) PCs
AMD FX 8150 running at 8 Ghz
Intel i5 running at 7 Ghz
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Guys asking about the honda comparison.
Manood po kayo minsan ng NOPI drag race. Puro 6 seconds sila sa quartermile.
Halos maiwan ang itlog ng driver pag nakita nyo yung mga videos. May nakita kasi akong 6 second honda civic dun kaya yun ang naisip ko haha