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To: John Koligman who wrote (61878)5/21/1999 1:34:00 PM
From: trouthead  Read Replies (1) of 97611
 
I have recently been thinking of upgrading my computer. I last purchased a box nearly 4 years ago. A p 100 with 16 megs of ram and an 800 meg hd. It's been a great machine. Trouble free and it has run everything I have loaded onto it at a decent speed. But lately it has been bogging down. I have purchased a scanner (which came with Adobe Photo-ResourceHog-Shop), loaded IE5 and RealPlayer G2. Suddenly everything runs as slow as molasses. Since then I have added 64 megs of ram and a 4.2 gig drive and everything is running like a top.

Here is my point. Intel changed to an incremental upgrade strategy about 4 years ago. Subsequent chips, after the release of the pentium, have not been as great of a performance increase as the pentium was over the 486. Software vendors have not been releasing as much "must have" software that ran so poorly on your current box that you just had to upgrade. Used to be that every 18 months to 2 years I bought a new box. Now it's been 4 years. But I'm thinking about it. I'm wondering if maybe a lot of people, who had been just fine, are starting to think about it. And that intel and the boxmakers will see increased numbers of upgrade buyers. Intels incremental strattegy has stretched the upgrade cycle from 2 to 4 years. Each year from here on out there will be a new crop of buyers. Which would be good for intel and the boxmakers.

Does anyone have numbers on how many buyers now are upgrades as opposed to new customers?

jb

wonder how many people are in the same boat I am in?
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