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To: Swordmaker

I was on the Apple Store web site just a couple days ago looking at that... and drooling over the prospective specifications. I would love to see some real-world comparisons and trials of this machine.

But the price tag reminds me of the earliest days of personal computing... yowzers! But yes - this is a premium piece of equipment.


41 posted on 12/12/2017 7:42:54 PM PST by TheBattman (Voting for lesser evils still gets you evil...)
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To: TheBattman
But the price tag reminds me of the earliest days of personal computing... yowzers! But yes - this is a premium piece of equipment.

I recall when you could configure a Pro Mac II setup and reach $24,000 fairly easily. Start with an $8000 Mac II, Max out the RAM, add five or six large SCSI HDs internally, add three Radeon Video card, add 6 monitors in an array. . . top of the line 68030 processor. . . Damn fast machine for the day and age.

That would be about $40,000 in 2017 dollars. Some professional video editors would gladly pay it.

50 posted on 12/12/2017 9:06:18 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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