Altair Fan

[der Mouse]

>> 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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