🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <40nrin$1dbk@seminole.gate.net>,
Chad Irby <cirby@news.gate.net> wrote:
>
>No- we're talking at least 
>
>Motherboard $650
>RAM         $300
>500 meg HD  $200
>SVGA        $100
>Monitor     $250
>Modem/etc   $100
>CD-ROM      $200
>           ------
>           $1700


   Shoot, I can do better than this at Frys. (a Bay Area
superstore, with distinctly nonsuper prices.)

   Motherboard:  ~400
   RAM:          ~300
   500mb HD:     ~160
   SVGA:         ~ 70	(Rock-stupid VGA card with 1mb)
   Monitor:      ~170   (14" SVGA)
   "Modem/etc":  ~ 50   (14.4 int)
		 ~ 40   (multi-io card)
   CD-ROM:       ~160   (vanilla IDE cd-rom, 4x)
		 ----
		~1350


   Or I can just buy the thing prebuilt for $1560 and get a
warranty and everything.  (The closest PowerPC box I can find in
the ad is a Performa 6200CD or 5215CD, with a 4x cd-rom and a 1gb
drive, (worth about $200 more for the two of 'em), for $2300.)


   *do* attempt to shop around before quoting prices, would you?

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   david parsons \bi/ Or at least quote the prices of Power Computing boxes,
                  \/                which appear to actually be competitive.