Windows NT for Power Macintosh

Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by karlgkk on Friday July 12, 2024 @10:14PM (#40951232)

For what it's worth, the entry level PowerBook 100 in 1991, when adjusted for inflation, cost about $5500 USD. An entry level iBook in 2003 would cost about $2700 USD.

Yeah, it's expensive, but it's also astonishing how much prices have come down.

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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by qingcharles on Friday July 12, 2024 @11:51PM (#40951635)

It's so easy for people to look at the dollar figure for something they bought in the 80s or 90s and not account for inflation and make a pithy comment, but when you back-calculate the actual price my parents paid for some things, it blows my mind how cheap technology is now.

$5500 for an entry level laptop! You can get an M2 MacBook for $800 today, and I couldn't even begin to describe how much more tech is inside that thing for 20% of the price.

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Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh by scarface_74 on Friday July 12, 2024 @11:30PM (#40951549)

We don’t even have to adjust for inflation. I (well my parents) paid $4000 dollars for a Mac LCII with a //e card, a crappy 12 inch monitor, a LaserWriter LS printer, a 5-1/4 drive for the //e card and SoftPC. It had 10MB RAM

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