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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Mac for dummies
  • Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:39:23 -0400

> The nice thing about Macs is that they don't loose value faster than a
> new car driven off the lot. I bought a PowerBook G4 550 on eBay for
> $1700. Used it for about 7 months, and sold it for $1500. Not a
> bad rent charge for a few months. If I did that with a PC I'd have
> gotten half what I paid for it.
>
> Tom
>

No doubt about it. The upside to that is that I can purchase PC's at
extreme bargains, spruce them up and save a ton of money. My primary dev
machine now is a PC I bought for $150 on raleighlist. I maxed out the RAM
and dropped in a 120 GB drive and it's good to go.





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