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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