On 9/3/06, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4 Sep 2006, at 2:27AM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: > Andrew Crystall wrote: >> >>> A low-end Mac Pro will cost you $2,124 compared with $3,071 for a >> >> In America. For one specific model. And with a very expensive Windows >> PC make for comparison. And without similar options for warranty, >> etc. >> > Here in Brazil it's even worse. A Mac costs about twice as much > as the equivalent PC-cum-Windoze. > But that's a short sighted view. The Mac is much cheaper in the long term. I recently retired an old Mac still in working order, that was nearly ten years old. Ten years of useful life! Reliable technical sources available on the internet confirm that a Windows PC connected to the internet is filled with backdoors, trojans, key-loggers and other malware in ten minutes. Ten minutes of useful life! Thus even if a Mac cost $100,000 and a PC only $1 over the course of ten years the Mac would work out cheaper! Still only $100,000 whereas you'd need over $500,000 worth of PCs! Comparisons Maru -- William T Goodall
Oh, how I wish PCs cost only $1... I'd buy a couple dozen and stick Linux on them; even accounting for the time to set up OpenMosix and a networked file system (to cope with those darn PCs dying on you every few years), I'd still be ahead by scores of thousands of dollars. ~maru /I hear the PDP-11 equivalent today would be less than $1... _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
