On Mar 5, 2009, at 10:50 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> At 12:09 PM -0700 3/5/2009, Bruce Johnson wrote: >>> If your clients are happy with Windows, Dan, get 'em Windows. It's >>> just guaranteed ongoing support work for you... >> >> I never said anything about Windoze. >> >> The clients want Macs but cannot afford the heavy cost per seat. WHY >> is it such a crime to want a cost effective Mac solution for them? >> >> > 'cause it's a class thing! > > It's like we're not even on LOW END MAC at all. > > If you have to worry about the cost you can't afford a Mac right? Wallace, you really should drop this this pseudo-populist crap, it's nonsense. Look up the original retail price of ANY 'Low End Mac' you've ever touched. Go here and compare that to the price of any of today's macs in constant dollars. <http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl> You WILL be shocked. A top-of-the-line Macbook Pro today costs (17" Maxed out hardware wise: 2.93G processor, 8G ram, 256SSD drive, non-glare screen) costs $3899. A PowerBook 540C, brand new in 1994, Apple's top of the line Powerbook, cost $4840. In today's dollars, that's $6895, nearly twice as much. The original 'cheap Macintosh' the Mac Classic, touted as the first sub-$1000 Mac, cost $999 in 1990, for a floppy-only system. This would be the equivalent of today's Mini. In today's dollars, that Classic would cost $1613 today, enough to buy a 24" iMac. A *usable* Classic, with the 40Mb hard drive is up in Mac Pro territory, costing over $2400 dollars today. So cut the whinging about how horribly rich you have to be to buy a new mac, and how no 'regular people' can afford one. OK? It's cheap and insulting in a Fox News "I make high six figures a year but I pretend to be just a regular guy!" blowhard kind of way. New Macs are cheaper than they've ever been. Just because they're not as cheap as YOU want doesn't change the facts. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
