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Dan,
I was trying to make you laugh, not give you a headache.
Sorry.
Dick
DanMartinz@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Dick,
> Computers are tools, similar to a wrench or screwdriver. If you get
> humiliated comparing tools with your friends, then you shouldn't compare
> tools.
>
> You right, the AGP will not be available for some time to socket 7 CPUs, if
> ever. However, a computer is not meant to increase bragging rights. It is
> used for the usual computer related work including, hopefully, technical
> analysis. It's really the buyer's decision, if he wants to pay $800 for a
> few less seconds of load time. Some people can easily afford this extra
> premium. I don't believe it's necessary.
>
> Since I already upgraded in January to a P150, I have no need for this.
> Also, I replaced all the components myself. When I upgrade again, the cost
> of replacing the components will be minimal. By the way, my motherboard AND
> Cyrix P150 only cost me $200.
>
> Well, I have to get back to MetaStock. Have fun with your new computer.
>
> Daniel.
>
> In a message dated 97-09-13 17:35:13 EDT, dickj@xxxxxxxx writes:
>
> << Dan,
>
> In 1979 I bought my first home computer, an Atari 800, and paid $1200 (I
> think) for it, only to have
> the price plummet to around $80 NEW a couple of years later......but did
> I learn my lesson ?
>
> HA! <fast forward> In 1989? I switched from the king of vaporware, an
> Amiga 1000, to an IBM 386 for
> $3000, a "great" deal at the time.....AND I took the word of the saleman
> that the 486 was "more power
> than anyone needed" only to be humiliated at the hands of proud 486
> owners a few months later, and
> smugly rejoined with the hypothetical query, "ONLY a 386, and you paid
> HOW much ?"
>
> Grrr....Anyway, I KNOW....I OVERPAID for the 300mhz ! But THIS time, I'm
> not gonna spend the next
> 2 years (my usual new-computer interval) eating dirt from any
> neighborhood punk that manages to
> scratch together the spare change for anything without AGP....
>
> Yea....that's it........the *AGP* is braggable into (at least!) next
> ........uh........month ?
>
> Yours in midlife-crisis confusion,
>
> Dick
> >>
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