On Mar 4, 2004, at 11:10 AM, Bryan Murdock wrote:
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 08:33, Mac Newbold wrote:Yesterday at 7:36pm, Bryan Murdock said:
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 17:33, Daniel Smith wrote:Brand new Mac as little as $750.
Danny
iPods don't count!
:)
Seriously, I saw an eMac for about that price last week. It surprised me
too... I thought all their stuff was at least 100% more than what you'd
pay for a PC with similar capabilities (albeit without the pretty case).
How hard is it to put some more RAM or a bigger hard drive in that thing
6 months down the road?
Not too hard. Ram and Hard Drives are both user upgradeable. As is putting in or removing an Airport Extreme card. Most other peripherals made for the Mac are either USB, FireWire, or BlueTooth, which is good, as the iMac and eMac don't have expansion (i.e. PCI or PCI-X) expansion slots as the PowerMac does. Of course, iMacs and eMacs are marketed to the people who don't care about such things. When was the last time your mother or grandmother needed an expansion slot. How many times does an elementary school/high school/university computer lab need an expansion slot? If you want a Mac with an expansion slot, you can get it(PowerMac G5), and all the speed/power/sweet design that goes with it.
Grant
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