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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium...

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From: Philip Machanick
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 12:06
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In article <40obve$754@male.EBay.Sun.COM>, writer@sabu.ebay.sun.com wrote:

> Get real! No one puts a PC together from parts bought at
> different places. That method will not save money. You can buy
> a multi-media P75 system for about $2K with monitor. What type
> of Mac can you buy for $2K?

Look at http://www.zdnet.com/~macweek/mw_07-31-95/news1.html where there's
a story about price drops in Power Computing's clone range. A 100MHz
PPC601 system is $1699 without monitor. Since they can take PC monitors,
add one of your choice.
-- 
Philip Machanick                   philip@cs.wits.ac.za
Department of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand
2050 Wits, South Africa
phone 27(11)716-3309  fax 27(11)339-7965
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From: philip@cs.wits.ac.za (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium...
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Date: 15 Aug 1995 12:06:05 GMT
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