17 Jul
2004
17 Jul
'04
9:18 a.m.
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:03:42 -0400 (edt)
Bryan Pope <bpope(a)wordstock.com> wrote:
And thusly Fred Cisin spake:
I don't own a machine as fast as 1 GHz yet. I'll probably be plodding
along on the skid of Dell Optiplexes I got this spring ($40 for aprox.
80 machines) for years to come. For 'ordinary use' of the form most
people engage in a 500 MHz machine is still very suitable.
The 'Manufacturer recycling' excitement being stirred up (heard a piece
about it on NPR last week) is Dell and HP crushing useful machines in
order to get them out of the market. They don't make much money from
the 'hand-me-down' computer market. They (and Microsoft) want every
user to be making payments on a shiney new box at all times.
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Bryan Pope wrote:
... and what do you suppose their definition is of "recycling"?
(Pentium >1 GHz; anything else or slower is "too obsolete" to
Arrrgh!! A 1 Ghz machine is perfect for a MAME machine!! :-(