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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v3 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> 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.)
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> Well, other people seem to disagree with that. One example:
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=macintosh_os&articleId=9023959&taxonomyId=123&intsrc=kc_feat
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> MacBook pro: $2799.
> Dell laptop with equivalent specs: $3459.
> A slightly less powerful Vaio laptop: $3150.
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> iMac desktop computer (20-inch LCD): $1500.
> A comparable Vaio desktop computer (19-inch LCD): $1800.
Ah yes, Dell. The most over-priced PC supplier known to man. Surely even
Rolls Royce are cheaper than Dell. ;-)
A while back I did sit down and churn through the numbers, and from the
suppliers I could find, equivilent-spec PCs always came out cheaper. I'm
pretty sure that my post has expired from this newserver now; maybe if I
have the muse I'll redo that research sometime and post it to my blog...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
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