On Wednesday 06 April 2005 23:44, Adam Bower wrote: . Just look how much Apple charge you to
have more Ram, faster/bigger harddisks, or upgraded gfx cards when you compare like for like Apple seems to be charging at least a 50% premium over what you can buy for an x86 pc.
I feel I have to make a comment here. If you take your 'wintel' machine to somewhere like PC World they will charge an arm and a leg to fit more RAM or upgrade the hard drive. If, however, you buy the bits from Anglian Internet (for example) and fit them yourself you will save a bomb and get a cheap upgrade in the bargain.
My Apple eMac 1.25 uses standard RAM and IDE drives. I brought more (Crucial) RAM from Anglian Internet and fitted myself and saved a packet on Apple's prices. The hard drive is easy to get to and to upgrade with a standard IDE drive.
Incedentaly, HP (I think it was) wanted to port OS X over to their PC range, but Apple said no.
Peter Peter Hunter (G0GSZ)