On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 10:57, Grant Robinson wrote: > 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.
In the end it just depends what your needs are then. If you want a system for about $800 you can get a Mac or a PC. The Mac is all in one box and all you can upgrade is your RAM and Harddrive (which is more than I thought, cool), and you can plug anything else you need into a Firewire port (hopefully). The PC you can open up, upgrade any component you want, add a second NIC and turn it into a router down the road, put in another CD-ROM if like, maybe toss the original monitor and get a new one, and generally tweak to your hearts content. Just depends on what you want. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
