[G4] Intel vs PPC

[Robert H. Baucom]

On Feb 19, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Brian Deuel wrote:

>
> On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:34 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
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>> Agreed, at the top of the line there's no comparison.
>> But at the middle of the line it's a different story.
>> For a headless Mac there's nothing between the Mac Pro
>> and the mini, nothing at all that compares to the
>> affordability and expandability that the G4s used to
>> provide. I wouldn't go to an iMac because of the
>> integrated display and inability to make upgrades,
>> and as I said it's mostly laptop parts anyway.
>> Apple could make a decent midrange system but they
>> choose not to.
>
> They *could* do it, but my theory is that that they would make the  
> same margins on a "headless" Mac as they do on their other  
> machines. If they were to price it at an amount similar to a  
> similarily-specced Dell or HP, there would be no profit in it. Of  
> course, it would sell like mad, and Apple would then join the race  
> to the bottom.
>
> My other theory is that if they would price it at an amount that  
> would generate the profit margins that they're used to, say $1200- 
> $1300... oh boy... you think people compare homebuilt systems to  
> Macs and bitch about Apple's prices now? There'd be blood in the  
> streets.
>
> Brian
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>
I made ten years, with those PowerComputing Clones out of Austin,  
Texas. Power Center Pros and Power Tower Pros.
Max the  RAMM put in a Sonnet Daughter card and they worked forever.  
NEVER had to replace a power supply or had to junk one.
RHB