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In article <40luqi$tfu@navajo.gate.net>, Chad Irby <cirby@news.gate.net> wrote:
>Stephen Knilans (stephenk@netcom.com) wrote:
>
>: Compaq is NOT a good comparison!  A P75 motherboard now can be
>: had for about $300!  That is WITH VESA and PCI slots, and 256K
>: cache.  At that price, I  don't think an equivalent APPLE could
>: beat it by much ! 
>
>...and once you buy the RAM, the hard drive, the power supply, the 
>keyboard, the mouse, the monitor, the video card, the CD-ROM, the 
>operating system, and all of the other stuff to make a whole operating 
>computer, you still get to put it together.

Okay, $300 for the motherboard, $200 for 8 MB RAM, $120 for 240 MB
HD, $10 for keyboard, $20 for mono monitor/card, $10 for I/O card,
$50 for PS, $0 for Linux...we're talking ~$700 for the absolute
perfect computer (okay, okay, add $1000 to replace the Pentium MB
with an Alpha if you want to get real dreamy).

>All for about the same amount of money or MORE!  WHEE!  And when 
>something goes wrong six months from now, and the place you got the 
>pieces from is out of business because they didn't make any margin on the 
>stuff they sold, you get to try and deal with a bunch of parts from 
>fifteen different companies!

Please explain.  What parts are you talking about?

a) Memory and disks are made by the same companies for Apples 
and clones so the users will experience the same number of
problems.

b) Intel is not a fly by night company.

c) The items not covered by a) and b) are of minimal cost, so
replacement is not taxing, and they do not often break anyways.
Be realistic, have you ever heard of PC user having to replace his
multi-I/O card?

Cheers, Terry Murphy