RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] reading through Apple's marketing speak.. .

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> OK, so let's get analytical.  I'm concentrating on the Gateway model 
> here.

I'll skip the Gateway bit, I'm no big fan of Gateways, it was just the
cheapest.

> > 1.6ghz AMD (1900) Athlon, 
> > 256mb, 
> > 80gb
> > from compaq is $849;
> 
> I could only find Presario models easily, but then the website
> crashed with an internal ASP error on me.  Run away! :-)

U h4x0r!!!
Anyway, it was a Presario.  I couldn't find any dual processor PC's to
compare with.

> > and 1.8ghz, 
> > 256mb, 
> > 20gb, 
> > speakers, 
> > and 17" monitor from
> > dell for $919.
> 
> When I just checked the Dell website, they were flogging the
> Dimension 4500S (15" monitor, 128 MB RAM, otherwise the same) for
> $699.  I upgraded the monitor to a 17" Diamondtron, the memory to
> 256 MB, the drive to 40 MB, the CD-RW to a CD-RW/DVD, added in the
> sneakily absent ethernet card, and got a quote of $1078.  That's
> eerily close to an eMac with 128 MB of memory added ($1129), and the
> trade-off is essentially processor speed for one-pieceness and
> Appleness.  Dell probably has no real worries here, but I'm sure
> they wish that Apple had stuck with the low-end iMac as their 
> low-end.

I was comparing the pre-config'd models.  When you customize, the price goes
up.

> The dual processor G4s are not really intended to compete with this
> group.  I suspect they will please their intended market for a
> little while, but it looks like Apple is really banking on IBM's
> 64-bit POWER chips for PCs initiative to save their rear-ends on the
> high end.  How well that will work we shall see in October, when IBM
> says more about this and possibly announces availability, and then
> after that when Apple starts producing those systems.  You never
> know, but my suspicion is that the IBM PC versions of their 64-bit
> Power chips will basically vaporize the G4 performance-wise and 
> create another round of downard price pressure in the CPU 
> price/performance area.

I wonder if the Macs will go back to motorola when the carbon nanotube chips
are in production?
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