22 Jun
2005
22 Jun
'05
10:56 a.m.
> You know full well that $100 is by no means the
total cost of
> ownership for that PC for the length of time I'll want to be using
> it.
OK, so you've got the running costs. Let's
just look at that: [...]
You've also got repair costs - $100 peecees break[%]. You've got
sysadmin costs, mostly in time (they will be higher for Tony than for
people who already have such machines around, because integrating a
`different' box is always more difficult). And then you've got the
distaste factor, which is probably the largest cost of the lot (it
certainly would be for me).
[%] I run about a half-dozen machines 24/7. Most of them are Suns,
which are Timexes (take a lickin' and keep on tickin'), but there
are two machines with peecee-class hardware. They need more
attention (repairs and replacement parts) than the rest of my
network put together, by a factor of at *least* two or three.
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