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To: tcmay who wrote (168459)7/18/2002 5:42:05 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd   of 186894
 
Agreed.

And from my perspective, most corporations don't need much faster machines for most purposes either. The most complicated thing most people will use is a relatively simple Excel spreadsheet. You don't need much more than a 2-3 year old machine to run that.

Someday, most likely, there'll be a reason for new upgrades. Right now, there isn't.

In the home market, multimedia and gaming still have some influence on the desire for faster machines. In the corporate market there's NOTHING out there right now to demand more performance on the desktop. Even in servers, the need for greater performance is very spotty. Certainly there are some places where it's desirable, or even necessary. There are many others where the good old department server is still just fine.

There's another problem with this industry, and that is that many of the products we hype and create end up being useless to anybody even when they are technically successful. This was particularly true during the dotcom era, but has always been the case. The history of Silicon Valley is crowded with the stories of companies that created technically amazing products that never mattered to anybody other than the people who created them. Even 100% market share doesn't matter in a market that is not profitable.

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