I want this
A Dell “Super Computer”
Dell Super Computer with Eight 20 inch Flat Screen Ultra Sharp Monitors with 1600 x 1200 Resolution and 5.1 Cambridge SoundWorks Speakers with Bass Cube. Windows XP Pro Operating System. The Computer items were purchased new from Dell in 03/2004. The Computer is a Precision Workstation 450 with Two 3.20 GHz Xeon Processors with 2MB L3 Cache 533FSB, 4GB 266 MHz Double Data Rate SDram , Two 146GB SCSI U320 10K RPM Hard Drives, 8X DVD+RW/+R and 16X DVD, Two Colorgraphic Xentera GT 4 Video Cards to run the 8 Screens, Cordless Mouse, Cordless Keypad, Dell 3 in 1 Printer/Fax/Scanner, 3 Ergotron Adjustable Monitor Stands, Surge Protectors, 3 Sets of Smaller Speakers for watching TV or Security System on Individual Monitors. The Monitors can be arranged in any configuration. Over $20,000 Invested. Works Perfect. Great for Photos, Charts, Graphs, Trading Stocks, Security System. I should have all the original boxes for shipping.
Bid on it or you can buy it now for ony $10,500.
Way back in the early to mid-eighties, when PC’s first began to take off on a massive scale, I worked at a local computer store in the small town where I atteneded university. Ten to twelve grand is about what one would pay for a fully souped IBM PC or Apple II. Half the price of an Apple Lisa II was for the ProFile II 5 or 10 meg hard disk subsystem, which was a huge box bigger than an entire PC is today.
Didn’t sell too many of those. Most systems still came in at three to five thousand dollars, though. Ahh, those were the days…
I wonder why the automobile has not become a commodity-type product like the computer? I think such a transition may already be under way, but it wont come full circle until the unions are all bankrupt, which foriegn competition will bring about eventually. When there is very little distinction between products, price determines the purchase. When price is the only deciding factor, a company will not be able to compete paying inflated wages due to strongarm union tactics.
Unions have more to do with sweatshops and outsourcing than cheap labor overseas.
[How do you start daydreaming about super computers then end bitching about unions? -Ed]