[geeks] can't wait for Vista

[Mike Meredith]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:14:31 -0500, velociraptor wrote:
> On 11/6/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> > True.  I would love to have an Apple, but it is incredibly hard to
> > justify the expense.
> >
> > Take a look at their top-of-the-line. It is nice, and probably well
> > built, but it isn't really worth the price in terms of getting work
> > done.
> 
> The multi-core desktop machines are less than any other name-brand
> computer vendor's unless you are buying at corporate discount prices.
> These aren't no-name white-box computers.

Well Sun's online configuration is pretty pathetic so it's hard to
compare at the low end, but once a Mac Pro is decked out with a
configuration roughly comparable to a Sun Ultra 40 it's a touch more
expensive.

I happen to be looking for such a system at the moment.

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Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
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