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From: Wes Groleau on 27 Jul 2010 18:39 On 07-27-2010 17:39, Tim McNamara wrote: > The Craigslist arrangement works much better, IME. eBay is a fleece > market for sellers, unless you're one of the favored few that gets the > giant sweetheart deal in exchange for posting thousands of items. I was furious the first time I sold something. I stated in the listing that shipping would be less than 24 hours after payment was cleared. After it was sold, eBay informed me that since my feedback was less than 100, they had to "protect the buyer" by holding the funds for 21 days. Never mind that I had an account for ten years and the buyer had a two-week account with no feedback. So here I am with hundreds of dollars in Paypal, borrowing money to ship the item! -- Wes Groleau Words of the Wild Wes http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW
From: Wes Groleau on 27 Jul 2010 18:44 On 07-27-2010 16:13, Tom Harrington wrote: > Tim Okergit<to(a)notme.com> wrote: >> Of course, it's not assembled, but assembly takes about an hour or >> somebody can do it for you for around $60. That would be $650 for a >> computer that has vastly superior specs. > > Superior by what measure? Fewer cores is better? Fewer features, > crappy motherboard, seriously in what way is it superior? At least one of the specs is superior. Never mind if one of the other specs is bogus. -- Wes Groleau Some schools are cutting back on homework … http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1508
From: Tim Okergit on 27 Jul 2010 19:14 On 07/27/2010 06:44 PM, Wes Groleau wrote: > On 07-27-2010 16:13, Tom Harrington wrote: >> Tim Okergit<to(a)notme.com> wrote: >>> Of course, it's not assembled, but assembly takes about an hour or >>> somebody can do it for you for around $60. That would be $650 for a >>> computer that has vastly superior specs. >> >> Superior by what measure? Fewer cores is better? Fewer features, >> crappy motherboard, seriously in what way is it superior? > > At least one of the specs is superior. > Never mind if one of the other specs is bogus. Nothing bogus, except the motherboard -- you got this right --, mainly on a $600 computer. I mean, this thing is cheaper than a Mini!
From: nospam on 27 Jul 2010 19:54 In article <i2nr1q$e7i$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Larry Gusaas <larry.gusaas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Fine! We're talkig about a $600 computer here. > > > > Note that the CPU I was refering to costs $200 more on the 27-inch 3.2GHz. > > The price then blows up to > > $1,900. > > > > You just can't imagine the kind of PC you could get for that kind of money! > > Your $600 dollar computer seems to be lacking a few things that come with an > iMac 27". of course it does. > 1. Operating system - add in the cost of Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate > 2. Keyboard and mouse - kinda useless without it. > 3. Monitor but not one of the cheap kind. It has to have equivalent specs to > the iMac. Here are the specs > to help you shop for one. no doubt the response will be that he already has those. > 27-inch (viewable) LED-backlit glossy widescreen TFT active-matrix > liquid crystal display with IPS > technology > Resolution: 2560 by 1440 pixels > > Make note that is is LED backlit, has an IPS panel and resolution of 2560 by > 1440 pixels. dell has a comparable display for about $1000, oddly enough, the same price as apple's new display. so much for apple being more expensive. > Add these costs to your $600 and then you can begin to compare. Oh, add in the equivalent to iLife as well. the least expensive 27" imac is $1699 and the dell display is $1000, which means the computer part is $699. with that you get a *lot* more than whatever motherboard and box of parts he's proposing.
From: Matthew Russotto on 27 Jul 2010 23:02
In article <i2nr1q$e7i$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Larry Gusaas <larry.gusaas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >Your $600 dollar computer seems to be lacking a few things that come with an iMac 27". > >1. Operating system - add in the cost of Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate >2. Keyboard and mouse - kinda useless without it. >3. Monitor but not one of the cheap kind. It has to have equivalent specs to the iMac. Here are the specs >to help you shop for one. > > 27-inch (viewable) LED-backlit glossy widescreen TFT active-matrix liquid crystal display with IPS > technology > Resolution: 2560 by 1440 pixels ROTFL. Last I looked, the cost of an IPS display at retail was comparable to the cost of an entire iMac. -- The problem with socialism is there's always someone with less ability and more need. |