On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 09:30 AM, Michael Shaw wrote:
> I used my wickedly fast 40 Mhz 68030 Macintosh IIfx (about $8,000.00 > new) and > my even faster fully maxed-out 68040 Quadra 950 ( about $10, 000 new > with the > WREN SCSI brick in it) long after they were obsolete and am now still > using a > maxed-out Daystar MP 800+ with four hard drives and 1.5 gigs of RAM in > it > (about $19,000 new in 1997) . > > Contrast this to the 500Mhz G3 DV iMac that I picked up for my daughter > on eBay > last year for about $800.00 or my wife's 450 Mhz G3 tower, which was > under $2, > 000.00. A great point. We tend to ignore the fact that the "cost" of the future has really dropped. I pulled out my original invoice from Power Computing in Septemeber 1996 for my still in service, albeit much upgraded, Power Tower Pro 180, with the then largest available 4 GB HD, and a whopping 128 MB of Ram. (Hey Photoshop only wanted 64 MB in those days. Who would ever use a 128 MB? <G>) Complete with 17" Sony monitor, delivered to my door it was $6,369.43 My daughters new eMac was $1,099.00, last month, and save for not having 6 PCI slots and lots of drive bays, it blows the doors off the PTP. Look at it in 1996 dllars and the current Mac's are ahuge bargain compared to their predecessors. Jack Russell -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
