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Machrone's Law posits that the PC you want will always be US $5000. That's held for a while, but with okay PCs for $700 or less, you must want a lot of peripherals to spend $5000.
Left to right:
1976: Altair 8800b with 8080A microprocessor, about $5000 with all options and a terminal
1984: IBM 5155 Intel 8088 at 4.77 MHz, $4225, amber monochrome monitor and no hard drive
1994: Apple Macintosh 8100 (G1), 80 MHz, configured with all options, about $5000
2003: Apple Macintosh G5, 2 GHz, about $5000, with largest flat-panel display and fully loaded
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