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- From: Erik Johnson <erik@phidias.colorado.edu>
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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:29:25 -0700
- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
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- > >Hmm, what increased cost are you referring to? Original XT's cost more than
- > >$5000. Don't mistake increased hardware requirements with increased cost.
- > >The first 486 I bought cost $3200 with a 250meg hd, 1meg video, 8meg of ram,
- > >14" monitor. The same money will today buy a pentium with gig+ hd, 16+ meg
- > >of ram, 2+ meg 32 bit video card. Quite a bargain in my book.
- >
- > The increased cost I am refering to is that of having to purchase additional
- > hardware (at current market rates) to replace or augment existing hardware
- > (purchased at previous market rates). Yes, you can buy more with $3200 today
- > than you did yesterday, but you still spent the $3200 yesterday and now you
- > are spending another $3200 today. The point is that the 486 system described
- > should be more than powerful enough to handle everyday applications, and users
- > who already have one should not have to continually buy new and expensive
- > hardware to support new and "improved" software versions.
-
- Well, that 486 is still used by my wife (with better video card and monitor, and
- *smaller* harddrive) with Win95 to run Word6, Pegasus mail, and Netscape. Works
- fine. I on the other hand routinely manipulate 80meg images. I must continually
- upgrade NOT because of the OS, but because of what I do with the computer. I
- couldn't begin to do what I do with any PC OS/shell the preceded Win3.1.
-
- -Erik Johnson
- erik@phidias.colorado.edu
- http://phidias.colorado.edu/vgallery.html
-