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bob — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:43:03 -0000

no its 325% the number is multiplyed by 3.25

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Vaius — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:32:00 -0000

Funny how this causes you to start bashing macs, when the Tandy ISN'T EVEN A MAC.

And ever since 2005, Macs have been able to run Windows on Mac. So, your "nobody makes the drivers" statement is invalid.

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David — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:26:27 -0000

@Todd,
You don't own a Mac, do you. You're still living in 1989. I've been using Mac for 5 years, and I run my law practice on Macs. I have yet to find hardware that's incompatible.

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Jon H — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:14:08 -0000

" Did people take out bank loans to buy a system such as this, or was this market to mostly business customers?"

Keep in mind that this is Tandy. ie, RadioShack.

I expect this was probably seriously overpriced, and marketed towards small business buyers with more money than sense. Dentists, lawyers, etc, buying a PC for their office while shopping at the mall.

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » “The Most Powerful Computer Ever”

Chad — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:46:09 -0000

Whoa.. I'm guessing that the 1980s must have been unbelievably backwards times. I don't remember any of them, since I was still in pampers in 1987.

So my question to all of you really old people is; what was the market for this insanely priced system? Did people take out bank loans to buy a system such as this, or was this market to mostly business customers?

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Aaron — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:55:04 -0000

@Todd: Now Vista users are the ones complaining that none of their hardware works and there aren't any drivers.

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » “The Most Powerful Computer Ever”

Ian Blincoe — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:17:46 -0000

8499*(1.062044)^19=26,673
isn't inflation like 3.25%?

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ryanradia — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:16:34 -0000

Coops--no, you can't. I'm as anti-Mac as they come but the Mac Pro dual Harpertown is as well-priced as anything you can put together assuming you buy extra RAM, video cards, etc from NewEgg.

It's also very tough to find a reliable, well-reviewed dual Harpertown mobo with two PCI-E 2.0 slots and 8 FB-DIMM slots.

Todd--Windows works on Macs, you know.

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » “The Most Powerful Computer Ever”

Todd — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:06:12 -0000

Nothing worse than spending a ton of money on a Mac and then none of your accessories work because nobody cares to make drivers for your "high-end" computer.

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Andrew — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:32:46 -0000

Geez, even in a Tandy thread some brainwashed MS fanboi has to knock Macs. Get a life.

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Sarah — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:18:24 -0000

My favorite quote ever, from Richard Greenblatt, creator (in some versions of history) of the LISP machine, the premier hardware of artificial intelligence ca 1980:

"The LISP machine will never require more than 256K of memory."

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Coops — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:09:14 -0000

Yeah and I can build a better system than the Mac Pro for less :)

/Apple makes way too much on the "upgrades" from their standard configurations.

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ryanradia — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:58:28 -0000

Hard to believe that in our pockets we each have a mobile phone orders of magnitude more powerful than that machine, not to mention much smaller and less power-hungry. Few laws are as great as Moore's.

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » “The Most Powerful Computer Ever”

David — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:50:18 -0000

Man...

I miss my Commie 64 now. I miss having to use multiple 5" floppies to run a game.

Re: The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » “The Most Powerful Computer Ever”

Gary McGath — Mon, 19 May 2008 09:35:55 -0000

That ad says "Our most powerful computer ever," not "THE most powerful computer ever."

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Elijah M — Mon, 19 May 2008 07:58:55 -0000

The rebates should bring it down to ¢26,573.

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Timon — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:16:06 -0000

When I saw this I went to apple.com to see how much it would be possible to spend on a high end computer these days -- a Mac Pro with 2 x 3.2 Ghz 8 core processor (16 cores total), 32 gigs of ram, a $3000 Nvidia card, and fully maxed out other options from the customization page gives this quote:

"Subtotal Please note that your subtotal does not include sales tax or rebates. $26,673.00"