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Article #3566Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: David Corn
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 04:12
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 04:12
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On 29 Mar 1996 22:03:43 GMT, William Taylor <wwtaylor@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >In article <adtDozn8L.4JC@netcom.com> Anthony D. Tribelli, adt@netcom.com >writes: >>You do realize I'm referring to companies who have stores, warehouses, and >>business licenses, not just some guy with a handfull of RAM? This swapmeet >>is a pretty commercial environment. Generally, the people selling this >>memory are middlemen buying directly from the manufacturer and selling >>with a minimal markup, unlike HP and Egghead who have a much greater >>markup and a lot more overhead. >Ahhh...but HP will at least come out and replace a simm if it goes bad. >Warranties can be useful. Like I said, although I would personally go out >and buy RAM at a swapmeet, my employers won't. They want a brand name, a >support contract, and me to spend my time working rather than going to >swap meets or installing ram. In that case, pick up your local paper, pick from one of the 5 or so vendors selling 8M SIMMs for under $120 or so, and get one of them...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.onramp.net!usenet From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 04:12:16 GMT Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA Message-ID: <3161fa9a.36539906@news.onramp.net> References: <4ipqss$onr@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <315B1BFA.149C@medcor.mcgill.ca> <4jfago$fu8@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> <danpop.828050308@rscernix> <4jhmnv$cem@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com NNTP-Posting-Host: modem7.pplnet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99d/32.182