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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> 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 ;-))
OK, hold on a sec...
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132273
>> And my point is that a few years back, I put together a really
>> high-spec PC with a boatload of RAM, very fast CPU and a quality GPU
>> *entry level* stuff costs that much.
>
> Well they do sell stuff that cheap then don't they ;-)
They sell *one* product that cheap - the MiniMac. (And that's the
starting price.) Everything else is way more expensive.
> What about a screen? Keyboard?
What about them? I already own those things, so I don't need to buy any
more...
>> 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. :)
never have that kind of money.]
> An order of magnitude difference would be x10 to my mind.
Right. Well to me, if the prices have different numbers of *digits* in
them, they're pretty damn far apart! ;-)
> Anyway, why
> compare with the Air? A bog-standard regular Macbook has a higher spec
Ah, so only 2x instead of 3x the price then. :-)
> You're paying through the nose for style (and a *tiny*
> HD and no optical drive - what a con). At least compare like for like!
Well, you can't deny, the Air does *look* damn fine. ALL Mac products
look pretty damn good. Jesus, I wish my website looked as sleek as
apple.com! But, unsurprisingly, Macs come with a price tag to match...
>> http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060513
>
> Snigger.
I *will* infect the world with CAD! >:-D
> Hmm. iCat, anyone? Is this the firewire port? *MRAAAAOW!*
o_O
No group hug for you...
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20031205
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