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Dick,
Computers are tools, similar to a wrench or screwdriver. If you get
humiliated comparing tools with your friends, then you shouldn't compare
tools.
You right, the AGP will not be available for some time to socket 7 CPUs, if
ever. However, a computer is not meant to increase bragging rights. It is
used for the usual computer related work including, hopefully, technical
analysis. It's really the buyer's decision, if he wants to pay $800 for a
few less seconds of load time. Some people can easily afford this extra
premium. I don't believe it's necessary.
Since I already upgraded in January to a P150, I have no need for this.
Also, I replaced all the components myself. When I upgrade again, the cost
of replacing the components will be minimal. By the way, my motherboard AND
Cyrix P150 only cost me $200.
Well, I have to get back to MetaStock. Have fun with your new computer.
Daniel.
In a message dated 97-09-13 17:35:13 EDT, dickj@xxxxxxxx writes:
<< Dan,
In 1979 I bought my first home computer, an Atari 800, and paid $1200 (I
think) for it, only to have
the price plummet to around $80 NEW a couple of years later......but did
I learn my lesson ?
HA! <fast forward> In 1989? I switched from the king of vaporware, an
Amiga 1000, to an IBM 386 for
$3000, a "great" deal at the time.....AND I took the word of the saleman
that the 486 was "more power
than anyone needed" only to be humiliated at the hands of proud 486
owners a few months later, and
smugly rejoined with the hypothetical query, "ONLY a 386, and you paid
HOW much ?"
Grrr....Anyway, I KNOW....I OVERPAID for the 300mhz ! But THIS time, I'm
not gonna spend the next
2 years (my usual new-computer interval) eating dirt from any
neighborhood punk that manages to
scratch together the spare change for anything without AGP....
Yea....that's it........the *AGP* is braggable into (at least!) next
........uh........month ?
Yours in midlife-crisis confusion,
Dick
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