19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
7:14 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 08:12:40PM +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
Well, I hae no direct experience of this, but plenty of PC shops around
here have adverts in the windo of the form 'Windows getting too slow?
Have it re-installed here for only <price>'. So perhaps at least one
common OS does get slower with time...
As usual I didn't want to get into this discussion but you've dragged me in :)
Yester I was listening to the government owned radio and there was a man
interviewed regarding a report of computer usage in schools. The
otherwise wellinformed man said that Sweden is among the top countries
when it comes to number of computers in schools, but that the computers
are getting old, and I translate: "They are on average three years old,
and as we know things get a bit crufty then"
What load of *beep*, the advertisers mentioned above have really driven
their message home!
Cheers,
Pontus.
Because Thing B is faster, Thing A is no longer
useful?
That reminds me of a thought I have from time to time when confronted
with statements like "The
computer is already x years old, it' getting too slow and must be
~replaced" -- A computer doesn't
get slower with time.....!