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PJ (pjuang@hawking.nhgs.tec.va.us) wrote:

: >Motherboard $650   - funny, how P5/90s go for $150, and you spend more
: >                     than $500 for a freaking motherboard

And your source for this price?  I checked a lot of different places, and 
you can't get P5/75s for under $350, much less the more expensive P5/90.

Just give me a source for a Pentium motherboard running at 75 MHz *with* 
processor.  Every time someone tries to tell us all about these 
super-cheap Pentiums, it turns out that they never actually *bought* one 
at this price.  

It's a lot like that "8 megs of RAM for $200" price from the original 
post.  Where?  That's less than the *wholesalers* get it for.

:       $1700 is a mite bit expensive for a P75 with only 8 Meg of RAM and 
: 500 Meg HD.....I think you should be looking at $1600-$2000 for a P75
: with 16 MB RAM and 720 Meg HD, depending on whether an unknown company 
: or a real company builds it.

...even with an unknown company building it, I can't find a price of 
under $1700 for a system with *only* *eight* megs of RAM.  Tell us who you 
think sells these for this price and we'll see.  I looked at ads in the 
local paper (there are a few local clone companies that advertise in the 
Business section), and I asked some friends who run little clone 
companies out of their garages, and they want to know where you buy these 
parts so cheap so they can get some.

: >...and you can get a PMac 5200 for about that- with more RAM and a bigger 
: >monitor.
: >
:        One of those 603e based Macs?  Don't they have the "brute force"
: solution to the emulator, because it supposedly ran extremely slow - so
: they doubled the cache?

It doesn't matter, since it's still faster than those cheapo Pentiums you 
see... no Triton chipset, cheaper motherboard components, bad shielding 
in the case...

Go to one of those places that claim some of these prices, and see if 
they'll make a real machine with everything for $1500.  Make sure they 
include *all* of it... including warranties.  And make *real* sure it's 
not grey market or black market (a growing problem in some areas).

Then get back to us.
	
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