And I do have to say also that I do love the look of the new Mac os X. Very sexy. We've got two machines running a copy here. It's such a shame that Macs are relatively expensive. I suppose it's all to do with supply and demand, but I would love to own one of those new G4s running os X. Time to start saving I think.

Wil

- wil

I'm trying to justify paying about half of that for more-or-less the same system . I probably won't get around to it until after Christmas though...

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Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
jason@gossamer-threads.com

Yeah I prefer not to get mine off the back of trucks

No, computers are very cheap in Canada. I have relatives in the uk who cry when they price compare. =)

Have a look at:

http://www.a-power.com/
http://www.atic.ca

two places we shop from, and remember these are canadian dollars (currently 1 Canadian dollar = .62 us, or .43 pounds). =) Oh, by the way, these places are not the place to go for good customer service. ;) You need to know what you want, and not expect advice/help.

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.

Do you know if the power supply would be suitable for the UK?

Or will there be any other problems buying from abroad?

Thanks for the links btw.

Holy cow!!!!

$689 Intel® Pentium® IV P4 2.0 GHz - 400MHz FSB Retail

Thats like £300

What does it cost you?

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.

Hey Alex:

Great links, thanks! I wish I had known before I purchased my current system (P4 1.5GHz). In the next week, I'm going to rush over, and pick up a ZIP drive, extra memory (256MB SDRAM too little - looking to 512MB or even 1GB), and some other goodies.

That and the major tweaking of our server hardware, Christmas comes early this year


Cheers - Dan


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Cheers,

Dan
Founder and CEO

LionsGate Creative
GoodPassRobot
Magelln

This is probably not the cheapest available but a 1.6ghz PIV is about £900 ($1200-$1300 USD) inc VAT, but that is a complete pc with modem, ram, tower, monitor etc...

Seems like you can only build your own desktop systems. Am I the only person that wants to build my own laptop??

--Philip
Links 2.0 moderator

Desktop?? Laptop??

Yeah.... ever head of a desktop or laptop Paul?

--Philip
Links 2.0 moderator

No...what is it?

Don't you build desktops, not laptops?

That's the whole point of the question! Isn't there some place where you can buy parts/kits and put laptops together yourself? Finding parts for desktops is easy.

--Philip
Links 2.0 moderator

Oooo sorry, I misread the post.

I thought you'd confused laptop with desktop.