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- From: g5000005@nickel.laurentian.ca
- Subject: RE: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.081746.1@nickel.laurentian.ca>
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- Sender: news@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca (USENET News System)
- Organization: Laurentian University
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:17:46 GMT
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- In <714823281.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> ewright.714853873@convex.convex.com responds
- to <714823281.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> Kaz.Karl@f1138.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Kaz Karl)
- writes:
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- >>a 396, by the way.) We paid over $7000 for the hardware and
- >>software. After struggling with this machine and its miserable
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- ??? $7,000.00 ??? Maybe things would be clearer to me if you specified
- which hardware and software you bought? And when you bought this
- machine. I bought a 12 MHz '286 (40 Meg H.D., 1 Meg RAM) less than
- than 2 years ago and I can now buy a 50 MHz '486DX (130 Meg H.D., 4 Meg
- RAM) for less than what I paid for the '286! BUT, (and a bit but) this
- would not be for American components, only Asian clone stuff!
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- >>performance for over six months, we finally decided that we needed
- >>to spend even more money to buy accelerated graphics cards. Not to
- >>to do anything sophisticated like fast 32-bit graphics, mind you,
- >>just to run Windows. Each of these cards cost about $600 by itself.
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- It is appears that your company didn't know what you needed
- in computer hardware for the application. A $600 graphics card is
- starting to sound like a frame-grabber (but maybe not, depending on what
- time period we're talking about). But I'm confused about the
- reference to running Windows? I have loaded Windows on my '286 (just
- for fun) and while being slow, ran fine. Again, I wonder if you had
- the right tool for the job.
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- I must add that as a long-time PC and VAX user, and a relatively newer
- user of MAC's, I am bewildered by the paranoia expressed by both PC and MAC
- users. I guess religous wars are a human condition (maybe they will find a
- gene for it someday! ;) ).
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- I'm wearing my asbestos Fruit-of-the-Looms, so feel free to flame
- away....
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- Norm Neil
- G5000005@nickel.laurentian.ca
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