Alan Zisman -> Jean Parrot said..

 AA>>> Although selling for the same price ($1600), JP> Some
 AZ> persons never learn ! $1600 ???

 AZ> At the time (1999) that was pretty standard for PCs and
 AZ> Macs...

 AZ> My elementary school paid that sort of price in 1998/99
 AZ> setting up the school computer lab with Seanix 266, 300, and
 AZ> 400 MHz PIIs.

 AZ> So instead of "some persons never learn" the moral may need to
 AZ> be "how quickly we forget!"



That's $1600 (USD) for 350Mhz cpu, only 10GB hdd, and without a monitor,
DVD-player but *no* CD burner, with PC-133 512mb ram (maximum limit 1GB
ram), AGP 2x for the PPC in 1998/1999.  No monitor.

I paid around $1500 (CDN) for a 1000MHz cpu, 80GB hdd, cd-burner, PC-133
512mb ram (maximum 3GB ram), AGP 4x, WinME configuration including the
21" CRT monitor in 1999.

So.. the pc version provided quite a bit more bang for the buck even
without a DVD-player.

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