Re: Slightly off-the-wall idea for getting a new Mac...

T i m <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Sat, 17 May 2008 10:11:39 +0100, wildrover.andy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Andy Hewitt) wrote:
> 
> >
> >Oh yes, it's just over four years now, so that kind of return on a
> >computer is bloody good really - considering an equivalent age PC is
> >given away on Freecycle.
> 
> Hmm buy for £1200, sell for £700 lose £500.
> 
> Buy for £299, give away, lose £299. ;-)

Actually, an *equivalent* PC at the time I bought the G5 would have cost
nearer £1000 more to buy. I actually paid £1800 for the G5, plus about
another £500 for extras (LCD monitor, RAM, and Applecare). I priced up a
Dell at that time, trying to meet as best I could build quality, and
specifications, and that would have come to almost £3500.

Cheers.

-- 
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/>