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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com>]

the price points have been the same forever.

by the time you have saved up for the G4, the G7 will be out, and the
same price.

or cheaper.

seriously, if you look at the price points of the machines over the
years, they don't really increase the prices that much for a target
level of machine, the just don't lower it that much either.

~ian

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:29:58 -0500, U. Jason Gloege Jr.
<ujgloege AT gmail.com> wrote:
> but that's the thing... if you *wanted* a dual opteron system, you
> could set aside the cash [theoretically] and buy parts for it on a "a
> little here, a little there" basis, and then build your machine..
> sure, nobody would support the system as a whole, but i'd bet that
> most of the folks on this list don't go for traditional support for
> machines-as-a-whole anyway... with the macs, i could set aside a
> little money here and a little money there, and by the time i had
> enough to afford the G4 powerbook i'd like, they'd be out with the G7
> mobile machines, and they'd be more than my total 4-year tuition at
> Carolina...
> 
> for me, it's *ALL* cost.  i love Macs... used 'em in school, didn't
> have a problem with their service, don't have a problem with the
> software aspect... but i just can't afford the hardware buy-in.  i'm
> sure it's great hardware... many people [including the vendor] say so.
>  but that doesn't make it any easier to afford.
> 
> . o O ( add to that the fact that i can't piecemeal build a mac over
> time, or easily hardware upgrade one that i already have, and it's
> just not feasible for me )
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:17:42 -0500, john broome <john AT jbroome.dyndns.org> 
> wrote:
> > Ian Meyer wrote:
> >
> > > basically, I know a lot of mac users. I also know a lot of people who
> > > think they're great computers, but for one reason or another, don't
> > > have one. My question is simple: for all you non-mac users out there
> > > in INW land, what is the main reason you don't have a mac?
> >
> >
> > Upfront hardware costs.  Software isn't that much of an issue, it seems
> > that the games I like to play eventually get to the mac, i use any
> > specialzed software packages like CAD or anything, so yeah initial price
> > for the level of hardware I'd like to have.
> >
> > Of course this is the same in the PC world.. I'm not exactly overflowing
> > in dual opterons over here.
> >
> >
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