[X-Unix] Re: Apple dumping IBM, moving to Intel

[William H. Magill]

On 06 Jun, 2005, at 14:59, Richard Nagle wrote:
> Why would you speed $3-5000 for a trickup G5,
> when next year, you can go to walmart and buy a PC for $399.00
> and run, the new version of 10.5 on it.

Your $3-5000 G5 doesn't even come close to comparing to a $399 PC.

An equivalent PC costs very close to the same price, if not  
substantially more.

If nothing else, the G5 is a 64 bit computer and the $399 one is  
dumbed-down 32bit system.

Intel's 64 bit CPUs (ignoring the fact that they don't work) are the  
most expensive on the planet.

AMD, different story.


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