On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 11:17 AM, Neil Robertson-Ravo =TMM=
wrote:
> I think price is not really issue at the mo (surely peripherals are so
> cheap that building your own is probably cheaper!?)
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> Mac's are nice machines.... to look at (IMHO, so donít bother with your
> Mac-o-lite rants :-)
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> No matter how much it moves on though, an iMac not only looks stoopid,
> but it has no floppy drive (yes, we still need them!)...
I am curious, what do you use a floppy for? Is it the requirement of
your OS or your application?
I haven't needed or used a floppy drive in 4 years --
The Mac OS works very nicely with floppy or CD Images. These can
be copied to hard disk,
uploaded, downloaded, emailed, burned to CD (and yes, even copied
to a floppy disk).
all Macs come with NFS and AFP networking hardware and software
built in with a
real plug and play interface -- you don't even require a crossover
cable to connect 2 Macs --
The hardware/software determines the type of ethernet cable and
adjusts accordingly.
All Macs come with a web server: Apache.
all Macs come with internet connection hardware, software and free
trial internet connection
All Macs come with a free 20 MB personal disk space on an Apple web
Server (this will change
soon to $99/year for 100MB disk space plus some other goodies).
sneaker-net is not needed
All of the above can be used to exchange files -- If you really
need a floppy you can get one for
about $100 (last time i looked)
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>>> I priced up the same configuration on an iMac
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> I'm intrigued.... Was it running Windows :-)?
No, Mac OSX, but you could get an emulator Virtual PC for $90 (if you
already own Win) or $90 -$140 more if you want to buy win 98, XP Home,
or Win200.
This also allows you to emulate other Intel OSes such as RH Linux.
So, dollar-wise, I think the cost of the Mac is still lower cost.
HTH
Dick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 01 August 2002 19:14
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: X-server?
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> On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 09:46 , <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Apple may be getting more competitive, but I still think an Intel
> solution
>> can be deployed cheaper than an Apple solution.
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> I priced up a new high-end Wintel desktop for my wife. A Dell at $4,300
> including software and peripherals. Our of curiosity, I priced up the
> same
> configuration on an iMac and it was $3,500. (17" flat screen, 1Gb RAM,
> 80Gb HD (I think), Zip Drive, MS Office, etc). $800 is a big saving...
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> "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive."
> -- Margaret Atwood
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