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Technology Stocks : AUTOHOME, Inc -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gpowell who wrote (13723)	8/7/1999 5:41:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

So what does this mean for all those brand new cable ready PC's sitting on the shelves awaiting buyers in Q1 of 00'? If the deep pocketed technical elite of the Bay Area do not want to fork over 5 more dollars a month for 100 times (ya right <g>) the speed? It means nothing. People have said "computers are fast enough-why upgrade" for well over 5 years. (I remember thinking my 100MHz 486 was all I would ever need) Yet every year they go out and buy a faster computer. Two reasons: 1) Secretly everyone hungers for the speed. 2) Applications! Stuff comes out that just doesnt work on an older computer and you have to upgrade. It will be the same with broadband. People who have $30,000 cars and $600,000 homes dont really care about saving $10/month. They just say they do. Eric