Ahhh. But who buys that version? You have to get the OEM. http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti..._reveal_more_Windows_8_prices_take_pre_orders Newegg's price for Windows 8 System Builder was $99.99 -- available either in 32- or 64-bit -- and $139.99 for Windows 8 Pro, the business-oriented version that comes with corporate features such as full-disk encryption and the ability to connect to company networks.
Ok, well I think we can put a lid over the whole Mac Microsoft thing. It sure was interesting and I learned allot through the chat and articles I researched. It's all personal choice!
What we know of as the PC was originally designed by a team of people at IBM with the intention of competing in the blossoming home computer market. Rather than build it from scratch, they used off the shelf parts. Schematics were made available with the BIOS source code. Microsoft was chosen to provide the OS which ran on it. When everyone else was designing closed systems from scratch, IBM took a different path that allowed innovation by others and Microsoft was taken along for the ride. THAT, in my opinion, is what has made Microsoft and the PC what they are today. Depends on whether "came about" means established a business or started producing computers. Microsoft was established officially before Apple. Microsoft, as far as I know, has never produced a computer, so Apple wins there. Microsoft: founded April 4, 1975 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft Apple: founded on April 1, 1976, and incorporated on January 3, 1977 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc Just for laughs, this was the first computer I owned: http://www.computercloset.org/TexasInstruments99-4A.htm I bought it for $99(not the original $1500 price) not too long before the IBM PC came out along with this dot matrix printer: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102622175 The TI had an impressive 16k of RAM which could be expanded to 32K! No idea anymore what speed the processor ran at. In the low Kilohertz range, likely. I bought the Expansion box so I could use a floppy disk instead of a cassette tape for storing files. The fat cable on the right is the expansion bus. I used it for playing, learning, and two years of college, until I bought my first PC - A 80286 processor, 640k RAM, ... You guys are lucky. Man I feel old today.
you should have built a computer i built a really fast computer for only about 400$ and it has 16 gb of ram and i just loaded linux onto it and then boom boom i have my computer. now i'm making another one
Haha I guess but it did one day suddenly burst into flames I have no idea how it did that "rolls eyes"
Actually quite the contrary . If it is a Mac, it is a complete waste of money, those things cost thousands of dollars
Apple is a premium brand with an employee base of over 35,000 people and they use state of the art technology to manufacture things. They are worth the thousands of dollars.
