{"id":23,"date":"2007-07-01T22:38:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T02:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/07\/01\/computer-pricing-2\/"},"modified":"2007-07-01T22:38:15","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T02:38:15","slug":"computer-pricing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/07\/01\/computer-pricing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back maybe in early high school, I decided to build a new desktop system, and scrapped together enough money to do so. I built what was then a <em>monster<\/em> of a system: <strong>dual<\/strong> 1.4 GHz Athlons, a <strong>gig<\/strong> of RAM, and a 40 GB hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>Today, my laptop is faster: Core2Duo 1.833 GHz, 2 GB RAM, and a 60 GB disk at 7200 RPM.<\/p>\n<p>But what interests me most is how cheap things are these days. Looking through this weekend&#8217;s CompUSA circular, I&#8217;ll point out a few interesting ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>$400 (after a big rebate) buys a laptop with 15.4&#8243; LCD, dual-core Pentium processor, 512 MB RAM (bah), an 80 GB disk, and Vista Home Basic. It&#8217;d be a bit of a downgrade for me, but to those who don&#8217;t have a relatively new, tricked-out machine, all that, in a laptop, for $400? It&#8217;d make a pretty good computer (juts upgrade that RAM!), and it&#8217;s only <em>$400.<\/em> That&#8217;s what I&#8217;d expect to spend on a peripheral or two.<\/li>\n    <li>$600 gets you a 17&#8243; notebook, dual cores, 160 GB drive, Vista Home Premium, and a gig of RAM. Now you&#8217;ve got a <em>nice<\/em> machine. For $600.<\/li>\n    <li>I&#8217;m desperately trying to justify to myself a new desktop system: $1,000 buys a <em>quad-core<\/em> 2.4 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, a 500 GB disk, a 22&#8243; widescreen monitor, and Vista Home Premium. (With a 500 GB disk, I could say I had Vista and yet really run Linux. *grin*) If you asked me, without having looked at the circular, I&#8217;d have told you that such a machine would probably run $3,000 or more. (A printer is apparently also included, although since they scarcely mention it, I don&#8217;t have high hopes for it.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyone in the market for a dual 1.4 GHz AthlonMP system, 512 MB RAM, 120+60+40 GB drives, and a pair of 17&#8243; LCDs? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back maybe in early high school, I decided to build a new desktop system, and scrapped together enough money to do so. I built what was then a monster of a system: dual 1.4 GHz Athlons, a gig of RAM, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/07\/01\/computer-pricing-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}