I know that yugo and his socks come a trollin' with this stuff, but I
still have to wonder:
My local Future Shop will sell me an iMac:
2.66 Intel Core2 Duo
2 gigs RAM
320 gig HD
8x Superdrive
ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 128 megs
20 inch monitor
(and they say it comes with OS X 10.4, not even Leopard, although that
might be a mistake in the advertising)
and they want 1599.99
On the very same page, they advertise an Acer:
Intel Core2 Duo Quad Q6600
3 gigs RAM
500 gigs SATA drive
"Super multi drive" (whatever that is)
ATI Radeon HD 3450 256 megs
21.6 inch monitor
[comes with Firewire and some card reader]
(and they don't say, but it probably comes with Vista Halfway House, or
crap like that, but what the hell, I could probably coax Leopard to run
on it, but that would be against the EULA and I'd go to hell)
and they only want 799.99
I mean, that's half price for quite a bit more than the same thing (I'm
not sure how those processors compare -- they sound the same).
You know me, I love my Macs, but we could use a Windows machine around
here (I find myself booting Parallels a lot these days to check things
out) and I've got the time to spare to try to install OS X into the
thing.
--
W. Oates
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