[X4U] Price of the mini

[Nick Scalise]

On Thursday, January 13, 2005, at 03:40PM, Mark Des Cotes <mark at astroprinting.com> wrote:

>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.

The really scary thing is that Paul Thurrott likes them.

<http://www.internet-nexus.com/2005_01_09_archive.htm#110558221384765759>

If he likes them, *any* Windows user will like them and then what? Windows geeks buying Macs? ~~~~Shudder~~~~

hehe. ;-)

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Nick Scalise
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