I think Dvorak was writing for people who had to buy pre-assembled
systems for their companies.
At the time, it was mainly Compaq, HP & IBM. Acer & the other Taiwanese
manufacturers hadn't cracked the American corporate market yet; Michael
Dell was still assembling computers in his dorm room and "Gateway
Computers" was still Gateway2000.
I've been assembling my own since at least 1990.
The most expensive build I've ever done is the latest one I built for
Photoshop in 2012. Components for that one came in right around $1200.
I bought the motherboard that would take the most memory I could get at
the time (32GB) & fit a Sandy Bridge Core i7-2xxxK CPU. BlueRay burner
with Lightscribe. Windoze 7 64-bit. I already had all the hard-disk
drives, so they don't count in the cost.
I just took a quick look at Dell, HP & Lenovo to see what I could get as
a comparable custom build. Their custom configurations that are almost
as good as what I built came in at about $2000, but none of them offer a
BlueRay burner. Dell doesn't even offer 32GB max RAM (that I could find).
Roll your own is definitely the way to go.
On 4/6/2014 11:26 AM, P.J. Alling wrote:
Since my first PC compatible, I've been building, well assembling my
own, desktops, and I'm pretty sure that with judicious reuse of
components, none of my computers have ever cost $2500 initially. The
one I want to build now might come close.
On 2/12/2014 2:01 PM, Stanley Halpin wrote:
I think my first Mac (Mac+, 1987-88) was about $2250. Every one since
then has been in the $1800-2200 range.
stan
On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:28 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2/12/2014 7:46 AM, CollinB wrote:
Yeah, that's it. The same sort of thing happened with PC's.
Remember what
the first XT's cost?
Alan C
When I was selling Apple ][ plus computers, people would spend
$2500+ on the
system to run a $200 VisiCalc program.
I remember John Dvorak writing in PC magazine that what Moore's Law
really meant was that while computing power would double every 18 months
or so, the computer you'd *want* would always cost $2500.
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