On Jan 19, 2010, at 11:02 AM, John Foust wrote:
I am regularly offered 2+GHz Pentium-4 machines
because it has
gotten around that I'm into "vintage computing". Scary.
What kind of people offer such machines?
People who think the easiest route to a new OS and 2 or 4 gigs of
RAM is
a new computer, as opposed to paying premium prices for big sizes of
last-gen and last-last-gen RAM.
When the cost of upgrading and/or a repair is half the cost of a new
computer, many choose the new computer. The old one heads for the
dust bin.
Oh, if it were only that sensible.
In reality, it's nearly always a matter of:
Them: "This machine is TWO YEARS OLD! It's ANCIENT! I need a new
one!"
Me: "Why do you need a new one?"
Them: "This one is TWO YEARS OLD!"
These people don't know what RAM is.
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.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL