Invisible wrote:
> OK, well I just bought a new motherboard for my grandparent's PC. I 
> don't recall the price off the top of my head, but Socket AM2 (i.e., it 
> accepts an Athlon64 X2 CPU), supports up to 4 GB RAM, has an onboard 
> nVidia GeForce 6200 graphics card, onboard stero sound, onboard gigabit 
> Ethernet, 6 USB ports, and I *think* it might even have Firewire. All 

> that as far as I could throw it!)

Wow, that's good. I can't find any with onboard ethernet and > VGA 
graphics for that price. Where did you get it? (This makes a pleasant 
change, I must say ;-))

> Similarly, a drive that can read and write CD, DVD (+/-) SL/DL in all 


Sorry, you didn't mention DVD, that's all.

[snip a little]
> And my point is that a few years back, I put together a really high-spec 

> Apple virtually doesn't *sell* anything that cheap. Their *entry level* 
> stuff costs that much.

Well they do sell stuff that cheap then don't they ;-)
What about a screen? Keyboard?

> Well, the idea of an Power Mac with 8 all-powerful Xeon cores does 

> around. You could almost buy a second-hand *car* for that!


for that. :)


> laptop I bought my sister isn't quite to the same spec. But it also cost 

> if that's not "an order of magnitude difference", I'm not sure what is...)

An order of magnitude difference would be x10 to my mind. Anyway, why 
compare with the Air? A bog-standard regular Macbook has a higher spec 

HD and no optical drive - what a con). At least compare like for like!

>> I do get annoyed by their excessively smug marketing, tho.
> 
> http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060513

Snigger.

> http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/12/14/halp-stuck-in-apple-comershal/

Hmm. iCat, anyone? Is this the firewire port? *MRAAAAOW!*

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