je comprends le fran�ais, aussi. to react conspiratorially to your er, "couching' of a 'better' price, at 700 in contrast to 1200--
pardon me while I make a rude sound in sarcastic astonishment. !! ohhhh--700 rather than 1200. !!! oh yeah, I have that kinda money just laying around everywhere....doesnt everyone?? :) :) :) jeez they sure know how to twist a person to wring every last drop out of them, don't they? on their site tonight, i noticed they are having what they consider to be "a special holiday sale price for year's end." the 7-card chassis's are being reduced to 825 dollars instead of the usual 1200 or so for year's end. gee wow. got to sell off that year end inventory, don't ya know??? I can just see the laboratory technicians and music studio staff, the world over everywhere, making out their dearests christmas shopping lists now... "That's what I'll get my beloved for christmas---a 7 card expansion chassis for the shop! I just know they'll be thrilled at the office party when I gift wrap it and set it on the desk... it'll be so festive. so romantic, such a gesture of our deepest appreciation. really says it all. at these insane prices, why, how can i afford not to?" gee, the MAGMA company's generous christmas pushover sentimentality just bring tears to my eyes. such heartfelt charity and generosity. excuse my disdain, but does it really seem to you--or me--or the reasonable person--that a mass produced metal box with a 300 watt power supply in it, and 4 or 7 or 13 PCI slots [also mass produced, in sweatshops in third world countries by underage children paid pennies a day, using simple electronic 'breadboards'] [engineering slang for printed circuit boards] ought to be slapped with a price tag of 1200 or 1500 or 2000 dollars? uh...why do i get the feeling they are counting on the worldwide image of affluent americans, here? do you get that distinct feeling too? how much could it really cost to make these things?? where is the real expense? my guess is that the price is going to pay the members. not the assemblers, not the factories that make the parts, not for the materials required...I think the guys who own this company are paying themselves what they think they deserve. In other words, the price owes to their affluent american lifestyles!!! ya know, I'm tempted to write them and tell them exactly that. they live and work just down the highway from me. it would make a day trip with a good car. I could show up and ask for a tour of the plant and be all polite and courteous, and then towards the end, start asking pointed questions that would shame them and make them nervous and unhappy. I mean, really: a handful of lousy, simple PCI sticks on a breadboard, in a stamped out metal box, with a common PCpower supply.!! for god's sakes, people.! 2 grand?-- for rigging that together? now, the PCI host card, the unit that connects the motherboard in the main computer --NOW THAT I COULD SEE charging a hundred or 200 dollars for . but an additional thousand? for the box, power supply and slots?? hee hee hee hee. hoo hoo hoo hoo haa haa haa haa that's unbeleivable. heh heh heh heh. what were they ON, when they decided that? I bet if someone wanted to undercut them, they could buy the host cards from them at wholesale, build the multi PCI slot boxes cheap to go with them, themselves, and clobber these guys with price cutting at discount. I mean, i saw a 9500 powermac on eBay tonight, 'buy it now' for 80 bucks. 6 PCI slots, right there, BAM. with things like that in plain sight, I gotta wonder: are these guys at MAGMA even living on earth? Don't they know? I guess the sheer absurdity of their prices left me no choice but hysteria. how could I take this any other way? janet the not so affluent american http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
