what makes computers so expensive?
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Computers were expensive some time ago. Not any more. They cost the same as your hi-fi mobile phone or a nice music system. Price of computers is at par with any other electronic devices.
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Companies that sell pcs- all are overpriced, if you buy anywhere, so no point trying to get good deals or anything because then you basically just buy cr@p (sorry):\n\nDell-- horrible and unless you don't care about hardware at all then you can get it-- overpriced 4 or 5 times more than they should cost- usually use Windows- most compatible, most used system.\n\nApple's computers- Macs are user friendly but if you try to fix anything your mac will hate you- overpriced 4 or 5 times also, but they are good, they are growing less compatible with everything basically, and the applications cost huge amounts for them, and basically apple's applications don't work well.\n\nHP- overpriced 3-4 times, many apps come with pc, pretty good deals\n\nSony- overpriced 8 or 9 times, pc are only a little better then dells.\n\nIBM- growing farther away from the personal computer idea, overpriced 1-2 times, very good deals but you must be prepared to learn a little about pcs.\n\nFor pc for your daughter if you want to buy a laptop I suggest a mac laptop- one of the 98 + ones for about 200 $ and up will do, for homework some games and email,  very user friendly Macs are... if you get them to work\n\nor dell's laptops mid deals- around 700 max for their laptops, they'll just have winxp pro (don't by winxp home, it's just not worth it, i'll explain later)\n\nif you want your daughter to have  a desktop pc, I suggest for stability getting an hp or an IBM\n\n\nIn the end, your daughter will basically only need to chat with friends, have acess to excel, word, and powerpoint programs, and the use of email- macs are ok for this but their programs for text editing powerpoints and excel arent the most compatible, I suggest getting a dell laptop- new 700 dollars WinXp Pro, it will basically do the job and much more actually, if your daughter gets interested in this she could learn more about WinXP (don't use microsoft's site because they give no good info for novice, or advanced for that matter...>: ), and games will be able to play just fine-\n\n700 dolars, WinXP Pro, around 1.4 Ghz, 512 ram, around 20 gb of storage ( I have 6 and that does well for me.... 1 ghz 256 ram...desktop... go ahead.... laugh)\n\nOr by a used Mac (make sure it works before, because fixing macs can be a pain in the @$$ (sorry), or a 2001+ dell laptop.\n\nFrom Desktops get the 400 $ 2.4 ghz 512 ram 60 gbs deal WinXp Pro, for ok stable cheap pc that will play basically all games you can find in stores and on the web now (ones that require more than this are for more advanced knowledge of pcs... kind of).\n\nHope this helped..\n\nIn the real end you end up buying a dell because its cheap it works... kind of, and in the end your daughter will just get a better one when she goes to college, and you might just end up throwing the old one away... (I want it... I can fix anything, just takes a while with non Windows computers for me)\n\n\nDo you know of the best answer 10 points idea?\n\nLev Lozhkin, proud 14 year old,\n\nInstant Messengers\nAIM -REEFORMED\nMSN -REEFORMED\nYahoo -LevLozhkin\n\n\nEmails\nMSN - REEFORMED@hotmail.com\nYahoo - LevLozhkin@yahoo.com\nGmail (GoogleMail) - LevLozhkin@gmail.com -2.7 gb of storage, want an invite ? (99 left as of 12:16 AM 3/25/06)\n\n\nLev Lozhkin
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Millions of pounds.\n\n\nDer realy expensive
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I guess only Steve Job is qualified to answer this one. But let me hazard some intelligent guesses.\n\n1) Proprietary technology. There is no Apple-compatible machine from say, Taiwanese manufacturers which explained the lower prices of PCs.\n\n2) Smaller market arising from smaller demand which equates lesser clout in purchasing parts.\n\n3) Integrated software. Apple develops most of the software required by most people and then bundle them with the Mac. This will costs money, which you normally have to buy separately for a PC (case in point, iPhoto). Of course there are freewares for PC as well.\n\n4) Premium pricing to give the 'image' of a better quality and cooler product.
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Alien Ware has sweet laptops that has high performance, and can play music games and all kind of stuff. they have won so many awards.  U can get a small one for $700. The big one cost like $4000. this is on circuit city.com. u got shop around.
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Graphic cards and RAM are not free.  Graphic cards are more expensive than RAM, but you can find good deals at http://www.pricewatch.com.
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c. Supercomputer\n\nTop500 supercomputer list is now full of culster systems.\nMany of them are cheap and definitely much cheaper than classic supercomputer solutions.
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Infinity... the more the merrier at the workplace\n\nFor example, Yahoo (the entire portal, including Y!A) accumulates 10 terabytes every single day. Google's and Microsoft's data farms are in petabytes. Same goes for Tax Office, Walmart and Federal Express and many other web-, customer-, financial, transaction-oriented companies.\n\nHave you heard of Moore's law? I think it basically says cpu processing speed will double every 1.5 years. But its exponential growth has seemed to slow down.\n\nBut not growth of data at commercial and government level, because data storage is getting cheaper per unit gigabyte, collection of data for competitive advantage, and maturity of data mining algorithms is requiring need for larger disk space.\n\nFor the average user at home, at this stage, 80-100 gigabytes is enough to store some DVDs, pictures, backup of office work, and music.
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Desktops are cheaper too.
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You're going to have to look this up in your book or something, computers have thousands of uses, from simple email to playing movies to sorting files, etc. etc.
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And you are asking HERE?\n\nCome on, man. Those things costs thousands of dollars PER HOUR!
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I can be expensive, depending on how much you want.  It usually runs about 2.3-2.4g/dollar.  The problem is most companies only sell it in bulk quantities.  You're looking at close to $200 for a bulk purchase of 450g.  It's not worth it.
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( mani_teminal / client server pc)\ncost:  very expensive / low \nimplement and maintenece:  hard and expensive / low\nsecurity:  very very high / bery low \npower:  very very high / low \nfind expert man :very hard / easy \nsoft ware:   limmieted and few / more and unlimited \ngraphical porpuse: not availibel  /  avilibel \ncenterlize : yes / no \ncapcity :very very high / very limitted \nsafe and stable: very very high / not  stable \nterminals usally ar not have processing alone and in this case security is high
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For the same reason that a plasma TV or a Saab is expensive: you pay for the quality of the product. Plus it doesn't help that they're an extremely hot item right now.
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don't you worry about it, they will take their money in due time. it might be because the computer costs a lot more than the software.
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memory upgrades help. PCs are cheap now. The cost and effort of upgrading an old PC may not be worth it. Just buy a new one.
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because only one company makes them. They can drive up the price to whatever they want!\n\nBut, for a computer that actually works without having to tinker with it -- i'd pay a little extra. Windows sucks.\n\nIt also takes a higher degree of sensibility to appreciate the difference between mac and windows.