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Annabooks has published the fifth edition of PCI Hardware and Software, a technical guide to the PCI expansion standard (used in Apple's line of Power Mac G4s). The $90 book contains an overview of Plug and Play architecture and the operation of PCI for both 32 and 64 data bit designs.
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The most disappointing thing about MacWorld is the lack of an inexpensive tower computer. TONS of people would buy such a machine, myself included, but Apple won't sell it to us. Put in just a G3, lose the fancy case, whatever. Just hit the iMac price point, $799. It should actually cost less... no monitor, standard form factor etc. Geeks are lining up to play with OSX! Please sell us a computer we can afford!
Apple sells 533MHz G4's for about $1150 to students and teacher through the Education section of the Apple Store. While it's not $800, it's also not $1600. So find yourself a college student or K-12 teacher and give them the money to buy it.
If I lived anywhere near a university, I suppose I could. At $1150, it's still overpriced, EVEN IF you accept the fact that it's twice as fast mhz for mhz. Even a 1.4 ghz wintel is not $1150. $1150 is still too much when the iMac, with monitor, is $800. Not to mention, why should you have to sneak around the system just to get a good price?
Look at it this way - a FireWire iMac is $1000, right? Take off the monitor, which represents probably $150 of the retail cost. (Apple's cost - $40 or so). That's $850. Put it in a tower case and add 3 PCI slots (net cost - $25, or even close to zero if you use a cheap case. Even allowing $50 for a nice case, that's $900 for a G3 in a tower case with PCI slots.
The cheapest G4 tower is $1699. Is the G4 worth $800 more than our hypothetical G3 tower? I don't think so, especially if the CPU is upgradeable in our cheap machine. That's the problem, the numbers on the G4 towers don't add up.
If I buy a Dell, every step up in CPU speed is roughly $200, a bit more for the really top end. With Apple, the same 1 or 2 steps in CPU speed is a $1500 increase. That's the price of a whole second machine!
Based on these calculations, it's obvious that Apple could profitably a fast G3 tower at $900 and make a tidy profit, maybe more than on the iMac. They owe it to their shareholders and loyal mac users to pursue this opportunity.
That'll be interesting reading. Not.
It was much better than Cats. I'm going to read it again and again.
Nice and dry, like a good white wine.
Why don't you just buy a second hand G3 tower. DealNN has one for 699 w/free shipping.
Even cheaper....and legal.
Because for $699 I can buy a brand new PC in a box. Why should it be refurbished?
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