Kids are smart, they'll plug their parents on the school work advantages, promise their grades will go up, point out how so and so's kid uses it for his homework, etc. meanwhile they will have already bought/borrowed Unreal, Madden football or some such game before they even got the box. Naturally they will point out the inherent advantages, cost savings, performance of the XXXX PC that everyone has and will probably forget to mention the Banshee card inside. No point in setting off any warning alarms with Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad will say, hey, sounds like a good idea he does need something for school and junior knows more about this then we do.
So meanwhile, junior just screws his intellectually lazy and financially irresponsible parents, grows into a lying amoral scuzzball of a teenager, addicted to eye-candy. Unfortunately that's not the end of it. Junior will probably grow up riddled with deep seated insecurity brought on by subliminal hatred for his parents because of their lack of backbone and their willingness to just buy him off rather than take the time to really get to know their son and together figure out what's best for him at this absolutely critical time in his life.
So, whoopie, TDFX now trades at a premium. At what price?
Aloha (Could-Be-Having-a-Bad-Day) Mike |
