On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:50:12 -0500 Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason I say what I do (opinion, that is), is because I bought a > couple of new SATA drives (7200 rpm, 500 gigabytes) recently for less > than $80.00 each. > > Prices are incredible (here in the USA, anyway). I bought some RAM > the other day (800mhz) for $11.00 a gigabyte, max 2 gigabyte sold > per visit in the store. 2 gigabytes of RAM for an Athlon dual-core > 5200+ board for $22.00. > > Incredible. >
The problem is that they are just US prices. The situation is not the same elsewhere, and most non-Americans don't have the US 'buy a new one' ethos drilled into them. We still live with 'make do and mend'. Take it from me that anything you see as $80 will be $120 (£80) here. Still I've never used a compressdoc script - my CPU's were always too slow. I still have 512M memory and a 20GiB main disk. The machine (Athlon XP) is only three years old, and I ain't changing it for a while. Main reason is that I'm currently spending most of my time mending the 100 year old church clock and chimes. A new one would cost the parish about £5000, and our income/expenditure last year was £800. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
