On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:12:12 +0100 peterslinuxbox@ntlworld.com wrote:
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)
Whats Mac on Linux like?
I have heard its solid and good? It would be nice to have a minimac and debian stable running ubuntu and MacOS side by side with debian testing in the background for thoughs alpha software products attempts Guess Ill need the 1Gb max ram on day 1. Maybe not a long term computer like thier workstations.
Regards
Owen