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thinkingishard

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007 12:05 PM

Hello RAM prices

Again with the crap Farhad.

First off, a year ago the price of RAM was running well above today's ram pricing. Say 2 GIGS of RAM then would cost you about 200 bucks. Today its well under 100. So back then the 1.5 GIG difference in your comparison HP and the mini was a substantial value gain.

The difference in hard drive size less so, but 250 GIGS vs 80 is still a big drop.

So given that a big part of the cost difference was the premium for the extra RAM, the depreciation difference is a lot smaller than you make it out to be.

Secondly, if you pay more than 275 to 400 bucks for an HP windows type machine, you can't use the internet or just like spending more than you have to. But then again, that's second nature to Apple fanboys.

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