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Re: What GSE-Reactive Really Needs to Make
Greg Buchner wrote:
In article <TrCdnUScab4RSGvenZ2dnUVZ_tidnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
The "low-midrange" desktop these days is a 3GHz HT Pentium, 1GB,
dual-layer universal DVD writer, 128MB video card, 200GB SATA, and
it's about $1000.
iMac 17 inch with 1.83GHz Intel Dual Core is $1299. Fits most of that,
but comes with far more useful software than a PC system normally would.
And even Intel is basically admitting that the Pentium 4 architecture
isn't all it's cracked up to be.
I agree about the P4, but performance is comparable to the iMac.
And the iMac is about 30% more expensive, and 512MB short on RAM.
Hard to comment on the software--to each his own. To me a computer
is worthless without Photoshop, Word, IE, and a dozen or so freeware
programs. The one thing I'd have to buy for a PC that is standard
on the Mac is DVD authoring software--about the same as the 512MB
of RAM. ;-)
It is good to see the "Mac premium" dropping, though.
The "low-midrange" laptop is a 1.73GHz Pentium M, 512MB, dual-layer
universal DVD writer, 15.4" screen, integrated video, 100GB disk,
and it's about $1100.
iBook 1.42GHz G4, 14 inch, NO integrated video (integrated video sucks
from personal experience) is $1299. Probably will be faster Intel by
this summer.
Laptops mostly have integrated video, and it's getting to be plenty
to satisfy all but gamers. Certainly video is well handled.
And the iBook has only a 60GB drive and a 1024x768 screen, instead
of 1280x768 for the PC. And still an 18% premium.
Better than before, though. ;-)
And best of all with both of those is that you don't have to run
Windows. A major plus for a lot of people that I know.
Well, that's the real issue, isn't it. Again, it's a matter
of taste, like preferring Hartford to New York--you're safer,
but it's a smaller world. ;-)
-michael
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