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!
Consumers in our society are extremely well-trained.
I am regularly offered 2+GHz Pentium-4 machines because it has
gotten around that I'm into "vintage computing". Scary.