At J&R the box was $380, with all the components I listed, (specs are here http://tinyurl.com/2ubl2r and I will admit the downside is the graphics card, but I'm not near ready to play Crysis yet), the usb 4 gig flash drive which I use for Vista's faux ram boosting was $20, so I spent all of $400 for a windoze box that would have run me at least $1,200 if believed the hype and got a mac.
Having had 2 previous dell lap-tops that both lost keys necessitating me having to plug in a keyboard to a USB slot that I generally would need for something else hasn't made me a fan of Dell either.
~Nyc
I picked up a $380 re-furbed HP box with a 2.4ghz dual core amd chip, 2gigs of ram, and 320 gig HD, with VistaHP pre-installed, and a 4 gig usb flash, used as Vista faux ram, for $20.
A comparable Apple box, with none of the versatility, would have run me a minimum of $1,200.
Hype.
America's greatest, and last remaining, export.
Feel free to believe the hype.
Last year's hardware, this year's software, when are you propeller heads gonna wrap your brains around this simple concept?
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Having had 2 previous dell lap-tops that both lost keys necessitating me having to plug in a keyboard to a USB slot that I generally would need for something else hasn't made me a fan of Dell either. ~Nyc
A comparable Apple box, with none of the versatility, would have run me a minimum of $1,200.
Hype.
America's greatest, and last remaining, export.
Feel free to believe the hype.
Last year's hardware, this year's software, when are you propeller heads gonna wrap your brains around this simple concept?
~Nyc
I'll take a BT/PSP fon over the iFon any day of the week, and twice on Sunday, TYVW.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6683231.stm
And while we're on the subject of Wi-Fi fones, if anybody's paying attention, T-Mobile can catch the iTards with their pants down:
http://www.theonlyphoneyouneed.com/
Put that together with the PSP/2 and they'll eat Steve Job's lunch.
Have A Great Day, bitches.