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| Re: Need help! Windows XP question for you guys [message #59880 is a reply to message #59861] |
Fri, 04 November 2005 17:21   |
Aaron Allen
Messages: 1988
Registered: May 2008
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not on the muscle car front, but to say
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>>>>"extremely slow" is innaccurate. At the moment, the quad G5 has a pretty
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>>>>good claim for leader of the desktop pack and the duals are no slouches.
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>>>>Offering Intel chips will put OSX head to head with MSWindows and it
>>>>will be interesting to see that comparison.
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>>>>Price wise, Apple has been a bit more expensive, about the same or a bit
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>>>>less than comparable offerings from similar turnkey computer companies
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>>>>depending on the product range or how you compare. The downward trend
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>>>>prices overall has not exempted Apple, Mac prices have come down over
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>>>>the last few years (despite their unfortunate decision to pull the plug
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>>>>on Mac clone manufacturers).
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>>>>For those who want to build their own boxes, especially in
>>>>configurations Apple has not offered, that can be a money saving option.
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>>>>I say "can be" and not "will be" money saving because some box builders
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>>>>I know end up turning over their hardware fairly often. And their old
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>>>>hardware typically holds a lower resale value than Apple hardware. So
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>>>>whether building your own boxes is cheaper in the long run is not always
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>>>>a sure thing.
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>>>>Factor in the time spend researching, building, testing, replacing
>>>>components, fussing with drivers, customizing your MSWindows setup.
>>>>Then, depending on what your time is worth, the comparison may come out
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>>>>differently. But there's no denying that building your own box may give
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>>>>you a closer approximation of what you want, assuming Apple doesn't
>>>>already offer what you want and assuming you don't want OSX and you
>>>>really like MSWindows, BSD or Linux.
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>>>>Speaking of BSD and Linux, if up front cost is the measure, by far the
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>>>>cheapest-upfront-cost way to go is to build your own box and run an open
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>>>>source OS and software. For example: ubuntulinux.org/download/ The back
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>>>>end costs are similar for any box building adventure, time spent getting
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>>>>it all to work and getting software happening.
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>>>>Cheers,
>>>>-Jamie
>>>>http://www.Jami
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