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- From: macster@iastate.edu (Michael C Mccarty)
- Subject: Humdrum Conundrum...
- Message-ID: <macster.721420991@du139-207.cc.iastate.edu>
- Summary: yes
- Keywords: DX2, Overdrive chips
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:43:11 GMT
- Lines: 31
-
- I have a fairly basic question that I want to make the answer clear to myself
- and possibly others.
-
- Why should I buy a 486SX-25 or 486DX-25 or 33, when I can buy a 386DX-33 for
- the same money or much cheaper and later upgrade to a 486DX2-66?
-
- This is, of course, with the understanding that:
- a. I am of limited budget.
- b. That I don't need the incredible speed at this point in my life.
-
- I keep hearing all of this propaganda that I should buy a 486SX-25 or even a
- 386-40 and all I can say is 'why?' If I buy a 386-40, just what can I upgrade
- it to? If I buy a 486SX-25, I can only upgrade it to a 486DX2-50. Where is
- the advantage to buy these machines?
-
- "Oh, but the 486SX offers 2 to 3 times the speed!" Yeah, but who cares... The
- software today is slow on any machine and I don't see the software of tomorrow
- being any better. That increase in speed and increase in price with the
- decrease in upgradability just does not justify the cost.
-
- Oh sure, there are the luxuries of local-bus video and such associated with the
- 486's, but the way the video cards are optimized around Windows (Windows must
- die!!!), who knows what kind of benefits, if any, you are going to get from the
- extra couple hundred of dollars spent for it.
-
- All I'm trying to say is if you are one of the many in the market for a PC,
- don't get caught up in the 486 hype and just be sure that you know what you
- really need and what you really want to do with the machine in the future.
-
-
- Mike.
-