Meathead,
Meathead re: sub-1000pc.
I found this in Bill Howard's column in PC Magazines current issue, December 16, 1997. I thought you would appreciate it. I quote the last 2 paragraphs:
"As far as predictions or recommendations that proved themselves over time, the one that seems most solid is my advice about buying PC's. The best deal, I have always believed, is to buy near the top of the food chain-typically one or at most 2 levels down from the top-where you get the best combination of performance,value, and system longevity.
2 and a half years ago, for instance, when the top CPU was a 133-mhz Pentium, the smart buy for $2,500 was a 90-Mhz or 100-Mhz Pentium system with 16MB of RAM. Bargain humters could have gotten a Pentium /60 or Pentium/66 with 8MB RAM for about $1,500 then. Though the latter configuration would feel slow today compared with the current Pentium II CPU's, the then-top-of-the-line Pentium/133 would still be usable. Thats's why I''m worried about the success of the $1,000 PC's this fall. The price is right on these systems, but they're not going to look like such good deals in another 2 and a half years. That's the year-2000 problem I worry about."
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