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Re: My favorite personal computer...
« on: June 24, 2003, 01:57:06 AM »
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Aegis wrote:
Must admit, right now I'm more tempted to drop some moolah on a G5 than I am an A1...


Me too, if I hadn't just splashed out £1449 3 weeks ago on a 1Ghz G4 17" iMac.  

I hate the design of the new G5 PowerMac case - it looks like an Ikea wardrobe.  The Quicksilver G4 cases were much nicer.  I hope they bring out a new G5 version of the iMac!
 

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Re: My favorite personal computer...
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2003, 04:19:16 AM »
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XDelusion wrote:
They do look nice, as soon as Apple realizes that high prices killed them and Amiga before, I'll get one. In the mean time I bought all of this for under $500

Asus Dual AMD Mother Board
2 AMD 1000Mhz MP CPU's
Ge-Force 3 64 MB GFX Card
80GB Hard Drive
40X CDRW
256 MB Kingston RAM
ATX Mid Tower case
All new!
 Once you got a couple CPU's it don't matter if you got a PPC or not. :)


Hardly the same spec as the new PowerMac though.  Compare the price of a dual 3Ghz Xeon PC system with Geforce FX 5200 Ultra, 4xDVD writer, optical mouse, keyboard, 160GB serial ATA drive, Digital audio with optical in/out, Operating System, 512MB DDR, Gigabit ethernet, aluminium case, and Firewire 800 and you're looking at over double the cost of the Apple, and the dual G5 is still faster.

This new PowerMac is probably the most reasonably-priced new computer Apple have ever launched.