13 Oct
2012
13 Oct
'12
1:48 p.m.
On 10/13/2012 04:41 PM, TeoZ wrote:
No, not at all! [rolls eyes]
The clueless who get the malware tend to pay the local part time tech
kid $50 to wipe the system and start over or sell it to those same techs
so they can buy a new machine.
It could have been a gamer or home graphics artists that wanted a newer
system or one that had a higher RAM ceiling. Generally people who take
the HD and video card out are not the usual grandma with a virus issue.
Well ok, I can see that scenario.
I still have a tough time wrapping my brain around the concept that
people sitting on their asses playing video games requires (and
consumes) orders of magnitude more processing power than I do while
running mathematically-intensive electronic circuit simulations and
designing industrial control systems. There's something just so very
wrong about that.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Their
stupidity is your gain, good score!
> It's jolly nice and very fast, though!
I guess you never ran into anyone who uses a computer for a living and
needs to upgrade every few years to something faster? Some people would
rather just keep their data drive (maybe the video card was something
special as well) and give a machine away then recycle it or try to sell
it when they are done with it.
So how many people who are such "power users", i.e., somehow NEED to
"upgrade" to something faster, for whom a 3GHz C2D is "too slow",
work
in environments where things are given away via FreeCycle? I'm sure
it happens, but in general, that doesn't make much sense.
On the other hand, I'm offered PCs that "got slow" or "got
viruses"
(so maybe I can "use the parts", heh) at least monthly.