Ok, lets look at this, It's Christmas, I buy a gift, a game for a XBox PS3 or Wii, stick it in and it works. Cost of the game is the same as one for a computer. Dedicated hardware cost 250 to 500, roughly.
I buy a gift, a computer game, will it work? If there is a possibility of upgrading what's the cost? Yes hard core gamer will foot the bill but the game systems now equal to or better than a PC would anyone else? Where's the future. Buy Vista for a game? What is really being said is buy a complete new system for a game. Does this make economic sense? Would you base a business on this? It's over, dedicated gaming systems have won. The Wii with 7 people in front of it ranging from 15 to 47 convinced me this weekend.
In the early 90's I was a terror of bargain shop computer stores and watching the paper looking for the part or system that I could "steal" for peanuts to continue my hardware addiction. I found a Lisa with software and printer in the local paper. Visiting the guy's house just for the joy of actually seeing a Lisa I found out that he had won it in a lottery at the store fixtures factory where he worked. I was told that the graphics and design dept had purchased the Lisa for $15000 with 1MB of RAM, an external 10MB hard drive, the Lisa software and Office suite (can't remember the name of that), an Apple I dot matrix printer and Macintosh software that would work on it. The seller was willing to let it go for $135. I bought.
This was my first introduction into a unified GUI apposed to the mish mash of DOS, Win3.0, etc. It was a mind opening experience to reinstall and test and play around in something that worked without understanding it or seeing the dark underbelly of the internal command structure. My kids loved it. The kids would play with paint (or whatever it was called) mastering the interface and logic at 3 five years old. After a couple of years and a 486 running Win3.1 the kids stopped using it cause of two issues. Speed and color they just couldn't wait for the refresh or loading and they liked pretty pictures over WYSIWUG.
I sold it for $135. The batteries were corroding and booting was failing once in a while. My son is now CCNA at 19 and my addiction to hardware has never stopped. I understand that these puppies are selling at up to $15000 again.
I am a VAR in the PC world and see this kind Dell pricing every day. The Mac mini is the first Apple product that I personally have ever wanted as it is in the same pricing arena at the PC products. This is about getting away from the 'Windows" world and it's viruses, and its spyware, and it's glitches. This Mac may do that. The PC pricing is well and good but don't forget to add a modem, antivirus etc. Otherwise you are toast. I make a good living fixing Microsoft issues that don't have to be there. The intended customers for that PC are home users. The kind of users that don't understand viruses and spyware. The new Mac may be the perfect computer for the home users that aren't geeks. If Apple is trying to increase market share this is a great way to do it. I put my money were my mouth is. My MiniMac (pinkie in the air) ships the 22th. Time to learn if this is the Mac to recommend to the question, "What home computer should I buy?"
The purpose of a library is information. Go to your local library and ask for the reference section and you will find librarians there that will help you find information on anything that you care to inquire about. Although reading is a wonderful learning method on many levels technology through computers is faster and more efficient. I do tech work at a small town library and full 50% of the adult use of the public computers is for information on jobs. Using your reasoning, in the last century you would be saying that people should have to buy their own books and not use the 'nasty' public ones.
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Ok, lets look at this, It's Christmas, I buy a gift, a game for a XBox PS3 or Wii, stick it in and it works. Cost of the game is the same as one for a computer. Dedicated hardware cost 250 to 500, roughly. I buy a gift, a computer game, will it work? If there is a possibility of upgrading what's the cost? Yes hard core gamer will foot the bill but the game systems now equal to or better than a PC would anyone else? Where's the future. Buy Vista for a game? What is really being said is buy a complete new system for a game. Does this make economic sense? Would you base a business on this? It's over, dedicated gaming systems have won. The Wii with 7 people in front of it ranging from 15 to 47 convinced me this weekend.
In the early 90's I was a terror of bargain shop computer stores and watching the paper looking for the part or system that I could "steal" for peanuts to continue my hardware addiction. I found a Lisa with software and printer in the local paper. Visiting the guy's house just for the joy of actually seeing a Lisa I found out that he had won it in a lottery at the store fixtures factory where he worked. I was told that the graphics and design dept had purchased the Lisa for $15000 with 1MB of RAM, an external 10MB hard drive, the Lisa software and Office suite (can't remember the name of that), an Apple I dot matrix printer and Macintosh software that would work on it. The seller was willing to let it go for $135. I bought. This was my first introduction into a unified GUI apposed to the mish mash of DOS, Win3.0, etc. It was a mind opening experience to reinstall and test and play around in something that worked without understanding it or seeing the dark underbelly of the internal command structure. My kids loved it. The kids would play with paint (or whatever it was called) mastering the interface and logic at 3 five years old. After a couple of years and a 486 running Win3.1 the kids stopped using it cause of two issues. Speed and color they just couldn't wait for the refresh or loading and they liked pretty pictures over WYSIWUG. I sold it for $135. The batteries were corroding and booting was failing once in a while. My son is now CCNA at 19 and my addiction to hardware has never stopped. I understand that these puppies are selling at up to $15000 again.
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I am a VAR in the PC world and see this kind Dell pricing every day. The Mac mini is the first Apple product that I personally have ever wanted as it is in the same pricing arena at the PC products. This is about getting away from the 'Windows" world and it's viruses, and its spyware, and it's glitches. This Mac may do that. The PC pricing is well and good but don't forget to add a modem, antivirus etc. Otherwise you are toast. I make a good living fixing Microsoft issues that don't have to be there. The intended customers for that PC are home users. The kind of users that don't understand viruses and spyware. The new Mac may be the perfect computer for the home users that aren't geeks. If Apple is trying to increase market share this is a great way to do it. I put my money were my mouth is. My MiniMac (pinkie in the air) ships the 22th. Time to learn if this is the Mac to recommend to the question, "What home computer should I buy?"
The purpose of a library is information. Go to your local library and ask for the reference section and you will find librarians there that will help you find information on anything that you care to inquire about.
Although reading is a wonderful learning method on many levels technology through computers is faster and more efficient. I do tech work at a small town library and full 50% of the adult use of the public computers is for information on jobs.
Using your reasoning, in the last century you would be saying that people should have to buy their own books and not use the 'nasty' public ones.