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- From: U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl (Branko Collin)
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- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Yes - Intelligent People)
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 15:57:58 MET
- Organization: K.U. Nijmegen
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- References: <4ef48q$rik@news.iag.net> <Supersede.Dn3sy8.CsG@iquest.net> <312B0660.63F3@mts.se> <4ghi50$2ud@hp01.redwood.nl> <4gnp0l$n86@thetics.europa.com> <312F71AE.12C9@phidias.colorado.edu> <4i2lqg$ko1@news.ais.net>
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- In article <4i2lqg$ko1@news.ais.net>
- nedkelly@eagle.ais.net (Ned Kelly) writes:
-
- >
- >
- >Erik Johnson (erik@phidias.colorado.edu) wrote:
- >: > A nice philosophy to have, if you can afford it. In terms of the programs
- >: > basic to business needs, such as word processors, spread-sheets, and email,
- >: > the bells, whistles, and obscure features of today's versions hardly make
- >: > up for the increased hardware costs involved in running them.
- >
- >: 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.
- >
- >Don't confuse computing-power/dollar with lower prices. While the price
- >per meg RAM or HD space may drop, it seems the hardware requirements are
- >rising faster than the power/dollar ratio! The computer prices are
- >getting like the cars. Instead of dropping prices, they add enough
- >features to <italics>increase</italics> the price instead! Why does
- >labour on the planet gets cheaper, along with materials, yet cars are
- >getting increasingly unaffordable?
- >
- >Soon enough, there will end up being a chip like the DEC Alpha made by
- >Intel. The DEC Alpha is roughly equal to the first Cray. (according to
- >the Guinness Book of World Records) Will Winblows 9x slow it down to the
- >pace of a 386SX16 running Winblows 3.1? I bet it will, and Linux will
- >blow you out of your seat and into orbit. :)
- >
- >Tell me this: Do you need a Cray to edit some text?
-
- I said it before and I'll say it again. If you PC users (and I really
- don't care shit wether it's Windblows or Half-an-OS or whatever you
- run on your 70's design hardware) really are that intelligent, then
- how come you cannot even edit a newsgroup line so that your drivel
- only ends up on the right newsgroup?
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