On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> >> Meanwhile, I have a bunch of MacPro-equivalents which cost me a >> couple of hundred apiece (not a couple of thousand apiece). > > > > Please point out where I can get a dual Xeon quad-core system with 2 > gigs of ram, Radeon HD2600 or equivalent video card, 320G SATA drive, > FW400, FW800, USB2, two Gigabit ethernet ports and Bluetooth for 'a > couple of hundred apiece'. > > The cheapest I can find JUST the processors is $344 for two 2.4Ghz > chips eworldsale.com is ALWAYS out-of-stock on those loss-leader items, so they are hardly the "exemplar" of cost comparisons. Pulleeeeeeeeeeeez! And, who, besides Apple, mandates that you HAVE to have an anemic bus speed, such as 1066 MHz, and a doubly anemic processor speed, such as 2.4 GHz? I'm running my production work on 1600 MHz buses and 3.6 GHz processors. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
