http://www.rosecantine.com/2007/11/07/macs-cheaper-than-pcs/ travel, fashion, food and wine, design, style and tech Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:51:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.rosecantine.com/2007/11/07/macs-cheaper-than-pcs/#comment-16560 Moribund Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:25:14 +0000 http://www.rosecantine.com/archives/665/#comment-16560 Back in the early 90's I was one of the first people in Orlando Florida to get a Mac Quadra 840AV. It was the fastest and most sophisticated PC you could buy at the time--a whopping $3,400. It was the last of the 68K series for Apple, a 68040. I really loved that machine and a few years later when the PPC machines came out, I said that I would not buy a PPC until it could run classic applications at the speed of my Quadra. It took eight years for Apple to field a machine that fast, so I bought it (8550). I put my old Quadra up on Ebay and sold it for $200+shipping! Do that with any 8 year old PC! Back in the early 90’s I was one of the first people in Orlando Florida to get a Mac Quadra 840AV. It was the fastest and most sophisticated PC you could buy at the time–a whopping $3,400. It was the last of the 68K series for Apple, a 68040. I really loved that machine and a few years later when the PPC machines came out, I said that I would not buy a PPC until it could run classic applications at the speed of my Quadra. It took eight years for Apple to field a machine that fast, so I bought it (8550). I put my old Quadra up on Ebay and sold it for $200+shipping! Do that with any 8 year old PC!

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