19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
10:52 p.m.
At 10:36 AM 1/19/2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
The people who DO know what RAM is know that last-gen
and last- last-gen RAM is a whole lot CHEAPER than bleeding-edge stuff, and know where to
find it.
You're saying that old PC133, PC2100, PC2700 RAM is cheaper in
equivalent size/stick than today's cheapest RAM?
What's your price on a new 1 gig PC133, PC2100, PC2700 stick?
At 02:16 PM 1/19/2010, Tony Duell wrote:
There is, however, no requirement to keep on upgrading
the OS and
applications AFAIK. If the machine was fast enough to do your word
processing, spreadsheets, whatever when it was new, it should be the same
speed today, if you run the same software.
But that's rarely the case. People like to *use* their computer.
They buy or download new software for it. They buy new gizmos that
run on startup. Malware gets worse, requiring new countermeasures.
Then Microsoft sends them patches.
This seems like a tautology to me: "If they never change their computer,
it'll stay the same."
If my desires never changed, I'd still be drinking chocolate milk with my lunch.
The problem comes, of course, when you want to
interchange files with
other people who have upgraded. There is no backwards compatibility.
That's another reason I keep well away from proprietary software...
Office 2007 easily saves in older formats.
- John