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Dick,
You didn't give me a headache. The last time I got a headache was in 1995.
<g> Something you might find interesting, my previous motherboard with only
64K and a slow Cyrix 486DLC-33 CPU cost me $300! Prices have REALLY dropped.
I suspect when my P150 goes obsolete, the cost of upgrading to an AMD 300 +
motherboard with 512 cache will be around $200 + $150 = $350. Since only
Jan/97, IDE drive capacities have quadrupled. Few users will need more than
6.4 GB. This means prices for hard drives will also plummet.
When product capability exceeds consumer need, prices will drop like a rock.
Daniel.
In a message dated 97-09-14 16:05:02 EDT, dickj@xxxxxxxx writes:
<< Dan,
I was trying to make you laugh, not give you a headache.
Sorry.
Dick
>>
DanMartinz@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> 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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