Re: What and incredible deal on a 13" notebook!

In article <qv95p3dkfs15dphpgjivkavka239tccnk9@xxxxxxx>,
tom_elam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:42:34 -0500, ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I like this new trend of picking a use case that has no relationship to
the market a machine is actually designed for, and then comparing that
machine to a system that actually fits the use case. First it was
comparing quad core Xeon workstations to mid-range consumer desktops,
and, now this.

My turn.

PowerEdge 6800

2x 3.4 GHz Dual-Core Intel(R) Xeon 7140M Processor
32GB ECC RAM
Windows Server 2003 R2
12x 300GB 10K RPM U320 SCSI hard drives
Intel PRO 1000VT Quad Port Gigabit NIC

$35,508

This is totally pathetic. I mean, this computer doesn't even have a
screen, and yet it's 25x as thick as the MacBook Air and weighs 41x as
much! How am I supposed to take one on an airplane? It won't even fit in
carry on luggage! And it costs 20 times as much. Dell sucks!

By the time you add the DVD and Ethernet dongles to the MBA it weighs
as much as my Sony example and is a lot less handy to travel with.

That's nice. I rarely use the DVD drive on my MacBook Pro. I only ever
plug into wired ethernet at work, and then it's because I'm working with
large video files on a network drive; if I were doing general
productivity type stuff (you know, what most people do with their
computers) I'd just use the wireless.

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