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Subject: Re: PC magazine on G5 vs Xeon

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 02:41:57 09/20/03

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On September 19, 2003 at 20:10:18, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On September 19, 2003 at 18:03:43, Steven Edwards wrote:
>
>>See the link: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1274138,00.asp
>
>The only thing they benchmarked were video applications.

Indeed, not very informative.

>
>The price on the one they benched was $4300.

The list price is 2999$. They payed 300$ for an upgrade ATI 9600 to ATI 9800.
The price for 2GB of DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) at Apple (1055$) is really
overpriced. The RAM they sell in the Apple store was always way off price. I
suspect it's the same if you buy RAM from Dell.
But you can get 2GB in any PC store or local Mac store for less the price.



>For that much, I could get a dual Opteron system that would smoke that
>overpriced, yet stylish machine.
>
>Apple is as Apple was --> overpriced, nice looking, and very good for video
>applications.

regards
Andy



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