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RudeCat7:
You had to have paid the difference, at sometime or another.

He's not dissing Apple. He's pointing out the:

price/performance ratio.

Example: The current G4s, have a $999.00 flat screen monitor included in the bundle.

I've seen it, I've touched it, yes pretty, but I'm not gonna pay that!

   
quote:  Customers are eligible to receive a rebate for each Apple display purchased with a qualifying computer. Example: Buy one (1) Power Mac and five (5) 17-inch Apple Studio Displays and receive a $1000 mail-in rebate.
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Who's gonna buy 4 extra monitors? Hmm.

[ September 12, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]APPLE OFFER

[ September 12, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]

I'm not dissing Apples, but I am extremely envious of anyone who can blow that much on a system.  :D

[ September 12, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]

Calum:
i agree with you! however you get what you pay for. there's a reason that macs are more expensive than i386 types. Basically, you buy into one and you get a nice sturdy machine, with guarantees and support, buy the other and you get more freedom, customisability and so forth, but no guarantees of compatibility or support unless you pay for those on top, which will bring the price up and still may end up much more of a headache than getting a mac.

what i'm saying is that while you may pay more for one than the other (and i bet it's possible to pay much more for a shop configured, fully insured 'PC' than you would for a comparable nonguarantee not-quite-new mac, if such a thing is being sold), it is still tough nuts to compare them in this biased way. it just reminds me of those sums where you can prove that you spend X hours per year sleeping, X hours per year eating, X hours per year on the train (or in your car), X hours per year pissing and so on, and they end up proving that you have minus 34 days' free time each year! it just does not, in all seriousness, add up.

[ September 12, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

Chooco:
dude, my example Apple was the one that is a 15" flat screen (CTR, NOT LCD)
the puter is called an eMac look here: emac
i'm sure it's a good computer but it's very costly.

as for your 1=2, i can do the next best thing. open up a notepad file and copy this into it:


--- Code: ---
--- End code ---
then compile it with a C++ compiler

it's not really 1=2 but it's pretty close lol      

[ September 12, 2002: Message edited by: Chooco ]

 
quote:X hours per year pissing and so on, and they end up proving that you have minus 34 days' free time each year! it just does not, in all seriousness, add up.

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hey i've actually learned the flaw of that in math class. the flaw is that they expect you to do 1 thing at once. they may say "you spend 2 hours pissing per day" and "8 hours at school" then add that up to 10 hours even though maybe 1 hour of that pissing was while you were at school. sort of neato  

[ September 12, 2002: Message edited by: Chooco ]

TheQuirk:
The $999 LCD monitor costs $999 for a reason. It's much brighter then most LCDs, and on the ones that I used (a few) I couldn't find dead pixels.

Calum:
wow! i could really clock up my own spare time if i learned how to burp, eat, fart, piss, work, sleep and breathe all at the same time!

also, i reckon from reading that example of code that it exploits the inherent rounding up capacity of integers, which is not really maths...

i could be wrong, i didn't compile it to see what it does, but that's my understanding...

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