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I think Microsoft sees Apple's success in the hardware side of things, and wants to mimic it. This has been Microsoft's greatest asset: the ability to imitate very well.
It's fun to build these machines. I re-built one of our PCs a few weeks ago. I've now decided to swap the case and the CD/DVD drive because I have too many holes in this one now. I pulled out the second CD drive and the 1.44 floppy. $50 for the case and $16 for the DVD burner. It will become fully SATA.
This was my first complete build in a while, probably 12-15 years. I think the last one I built was an AMD 486! It was fun to see how AMD kept ramping up the speed of the 486 and motherboards, to compete with the Pentiums.
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James
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the engineer adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
Red-beard for President, 2020
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