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11 Oct 2024 21:17:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Multicore insanity  
From: Orchid XP v3
Date: 9 Sep 2007 14:47:22
Message: <46e43fba$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v3 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> (OTOH, it only runs on a Mac, which is significantly more 
>> expensive than any PC.)
> 
>   That's just not true.
> 
>   The cheapest existing Mac is more expensive than the cheapest existing PC.
> 
>   However, compare the price of any Mac to the price of a PC with the
> *same* specs (computing power, memory, graphics card, etc). You might
> get a surprise.

I did that a while back. It wasn't very favourable.

(In fairness, the Mac is more expensive by a smaller margin than I 
expected.)

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/


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