At 4:58 PM -0800 2/28/05, Steve Eskow wrote: Perhaps we need a $500 dollar public computer more than we need a $100 private computer.
I think a case can be made that can be made that a $500. - or $2,500 computer may be (cheaper?) (more profitable?) (of more use?) Underpinning the telecenter (or 40 foot van) is this idea...that the assets that are heavily used - as much as 24/7 - and supervised, maintained, updated, end up providing more value than "cheaper" machines, used by less trained persons, for short periods.
In the rag trade, where I grew up, there was a saying...the expensive suit will be worn long, long after the cheap one has been thrown away. There was a related saying - something about "value is remembered long after the price is forgotten."
But we don't live in a black and white, either or world. We live in a world where in the best case situations, options are available from which wise decisions can flow.
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