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Article #1066Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: PJ
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:41
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:41
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> >Think man! That price you are thinking of comes from volume discounts >that >motherboard manufacturers get. You know, the pricing for lots of 5000 or >10000? > >(Not to mention that it's still more expensive than that) > >Go ahead and buy your cheap little motherboard if it exists. I wonder >what it's performance would be. > So you're saying that I would have to pay double the price for a chip? And $300 for a motherboard? You would have to use the same logic for promoting the PPC chips too. I remember that it cost $80 for a PPC 603e chip. Why did delaers here sell complete motherboards for $279 when the chip was supposed to cost $249 (AMD)? Not to mention the performance was excellent.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.larc.nasa.gov!usenet From: PJ <pjuang@hawking.nhgs.tec.va.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 15 Aug 1995 14:41:18 GMT Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA Message-ID: <40qbme$1h@reznor.larc.nasa.gov> References: <stephenkDD9Ay3.H7D@netcom.com> <1995Aug14.170233.47582@cobra.uni.edu> <40ooq2$pm0@navajo.gate.net> <40or0h$15n6@navajo.gate.net> <40p4eo$qeo@caesar.ultra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sdrlmac.larc.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K) X-URL: news:40p4eo$qeo@caesar.ultra.net