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In <docjoe-1608950821470001@ip13.wilmington.de.interramp.com> docjoe@interramp.com (Joe Ragosta) writes:

>The reason it LOOKS like PPC is more expensive is that you don't have a
>significant clone market, yet. IMO, that's a good thing. Clones don't save
>that much money (current PowerMac prices are comparable to clone Pentium
>prices) and create a huge number of headaches.

BULLSHIT!  Nobody is forced to buy a clone.  If they were only marginally
cheaper and considerably worse than the brand name hardware, nobody
would buy them.  When did you hear of the last shortage of brand name PC's?

If you buy something really cheap, you have all the chances to get a piece
of crap, but most clones are good enough for their intended lifetime,
which is pretty short nowadays.  No matter whether you pay $2000 or $5000
for a bleeding edge PC today, it will be obsolete after one year and you'll
need a new motherboard, _at least_.  

If the market share of the PC's is 10+ times larger than the market share
of the Mac's, this is primarily due to clones, which forced the big
name vendors to keep their prices at a competitive level.  Moreover, the
current low prices of the Mac's are due to the competition created by the
PC clones, which threatened the very existence of Apple, which was forced
to abandon a decade of ludicrously high pricing policy.

Saying that not having a significant clone market is a good thing is a
proof of sheer stupidity.  Or are you missing the times when a dog slow
Mac used to cost a fortune?

Dan
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