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Article #1638Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Nathan Hand
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 01:03
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 01:03
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Mark Eaton (marke@nwlink.com) wrote: : Ummm right I think PC users are a tad, well, stupid when it comes to : price. All they ever think about is the initial cost. They don't think : about cost of ownership issues. I guess they are so stupid their time : isn't worth anything, even to themselves. The cost of ownership issuees? Like the OS? Free! Like the RAM? Same price! Like the disk? Same price! Like the monitor? Same price! Like the keyboard, I/O cards, mouse, cables, etc? Probably same price! Do you mean tinkering with the machine? I enjoy that. I tinker with my machine for fun. You cannot place value on one persons happiness. -- Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions - not even thinking of questions, to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than finding answers?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bin.anu.edu.au!nathanh From: nathanh@bin.anu.edu.au (Nathan Hand) 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....??? Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Date: 25 Aug 1995 01:03:21 GMT Organization: Australian National University Message-ID: <41j7gp$l0a@manuel.anu.edu.au> References: <3tmppr$8ck@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <philip-1207951230470001@macadamia.cs.wits.ac.za> <3u1id7$19b@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <DByyIp.KDF@utnetw.utoledo.edu> <3uk8lb$2ua@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> <3vkii2$o6o@freud.inst.com> <3vlorg$kq3@steel.interlog.com> <400t19$hot@freud.inst.com> <402ump$4mq@steel.interlog.com> <408pa7$htk@meaddata.meaddata.com> <DD16n3.M6q@eskimo.com> <marke-1108952124560001@port9.annex2.nwlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.63.25 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]