[X4U] Price of the mini

Mark Des Cotes mark at astroprinting.com
Thu Jan 13 13:37:10 PST 2005


It's pretty amazing when you consider what you get for $499. Especially 
when you look at the price of computers over the last 20 years. I 
recently found a bunch of old invoices for old computers we've 
purchased over the years.

Prices are in Canadian dollars
Dual 1.0 GHz G4 $4644.00  Feb 2002
PowerMac G3 Desktop 266MHz $3259.00 Feb 1998
PowerMac G3 Tower 300MHz $4259.00 Nov 1997
Powermac 9500/132MHz $7299 Feb 1996
Quadra 950 $8059.00 Dec 1992
LCIII $3299.00 May 1992

All of these came with a mouse and keyboard only. Monitors were extra.

And now for $499.00 (USD) I can get a computer that can outperform all 
of them.

Makes you wonder what the price will be 10 years from now?

Mark Des Cotes
Systems Manager/Graphic Designer

Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd.
3308 Second Street East
Cornwall Ontario Canada  K6H 6J8
T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106,  F (613) 932-1052
www.astroprinting.com




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