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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (66583)	7/25/1999 2:59:00 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574005

Cirruslvr, "... as PIII becomes the volume leader ... this isn't good news for AMD." As much as I would like to have a 1GHz Athlon for a gaming machine, my clients are overwhelmingly determined to buy Intel. And most of them think that a Pentium 200 with 16MB puts them in an elite club. They have no concept of what an Athlon might do for them. And probably never will. What I hear most from my users is "I haven't got time to learn about ..." and "the boss will approve upgrades when hell freezes over". When they do make a change, they tend to skip several generations and again buy "safe" machines with Intel guts. Their logic is that it costs more to call out a serviceperson to "open" the box than the PC is worth. As cheap as CPUs and mobos may be, it still costs $200+ to get someone out there, $200 more to get them to open the box, and $400 to get them to close it back up. I tell them to forget the service person, discard their PC and buy new. But they never listen. Microsoft has made this so hard to do that they have a point (anyone who has tried to copy an MS-Windows drive knows what I mean). Maybe some day people will open their minds to learning and their wallets to purchasing more for less. But, in my experience, business buys infrequently and when it does it buys the safest available choice. They are the buyers, they make the market, and (when all is said and done) they are probably making the right decisions. Craig