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- From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
- Subject: Re: AMD rubbish????
- Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:58:45 GMT
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- In article <1068@mavrick.UUCP> luis@mavrick.UUCP (luis basto) writes:
- >: For price, buy 386DX-40.
- >: For speed, buy 486SX-25 or 33.
- >
- >If I look at ten clients, 9 of them would go for price and one for
- >performance. It's unfortunate but true.
-
- Why unfortunate? Does every secretary and stock-clerk need a 486, or
- even 386, on their desk? It just so happens that the vendor makes more
- money on higher-performance systems, and they push these systems on
- institutional/corporate buyers.
-
- Institutional/corporate buyers are usually VERY stupid as far as computers
- go, and if they are told by a vendor that all their secretary's computers
- need to be 486-33's, then they believe them. I see it happen around here
- all the time. The news-letters and technical help and general knowledge
- level of the "in-house" computer support staff is a joke to the very few
- employees that know their way around computers.
-
- >Most people just look at the
- >bottom line. The tenth person is either a developer/programmer, or
- >wants to run some flavor of *nix, OS/2, and soon NT.
-
- And that 10'th person KNOWS what he does, KNOWS what wants, KNOWS what
- to look for, KNOWS how to shop around, and at least gets what he NEEDS.
-
- You've got to take into account a machine's capability and the user's
- needs, and pay less attention to a vendor's marketing strategy.
-
- And buy the way...
-
- What 486sx has the same performance as a 386-40? My gut feeling is that
- a 486-sx-25 is about even with a 386-40.
-