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Invisible 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
Nice. Ebuyer is now bookmarked.
>>> 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.
Well, it starts at 399 actually but that doesn't alter your point!
>> What about a screen? Keyboard?
> What about them? I already own those things, so I don't need to buy any
> more...
But Apple don't sell DIY bits. So it's a bit unfair to compare with that
scenario. "I already own a MacBook* so I don't need to buy one. Free!"
*Haha, I typed McBook by mistake the first time, how crap a laptop would
that be. Although, you'd probably get a drink and fries with it...
>>> 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!
>> car for that. :)
Cars are not expensive second-hand unless you want an almost-brand-new one.
> never have that kind of money.]
See Scott's reply.
>> 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! ;-)
999 and 1,000 ? (cheap shot, I know ;-))
>> Anyway, why compare with the Air? A bog-standard regular Macbook has a
>
> Ah, so only 2x instead of 3x the price then. :-)
than it is, though.
> Well, you can't deny, the Air does *look* damn fine.
I can't, and I won't! :)
>> Hmm. iCat, anyone? Is this the firewire port? *MRAAAAOW!*
>
> o_O
>
> No group hug for you...
Hey c'mon, it's an honest mistake anyone could make...
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