Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 03:30:33 02/20/03
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On February 20, 2003 at 03:06:19, Russell Reagan wrote:
>On February 19, 2003 at 23:44:48, Matt Taylor wrote:
>
>>It is very profittable to allow users to upgrade
>>every 6 months and purchase every generation of chips.
>
>I don't think there's any reason for people to upgrade every 6 months. I'm still
>running a P3 733 MHz. Since I bought it two and a half years ago, the only thing
>I've added is a second CPU, just to play around with SMP chess stuff. Even for
>playing online 3D games, I experience no performance lag. I really don't see a
>reason to upgrade, unless I was running a server that was having a hard time
>keeping up, or something like that.
You are right. There is no reason to upgrade every six months. In my opinion
too many people are just thinking they must always have the latest thing.
I do never upgrade unless clock speed is twice or even three times as fast
as my old CPU. By the way, I can't afford upgrade sooner my 4 different PC's
Kurt
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