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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Stichnoth who wrote (33568)	11/2/1999 2:16:00 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi John Stichnoth; Re upgrading your machine in a few years... It is my belief that all the DRAM you will buy this year or next will be pretty much obsolete 3 years later. The same applies to the processors. Of course, obsolete may be good enough, there are plenty of 8086s out there still operating with "gorilla" brand impact dot matrix printers and monochrome monitors. (This is hard for most tech types to believe, since we throw our stuff out after it's a couple years old, but it is nevertheless true.) I am sure that Dan3 knows more about updating machines, but I think that the secret is to take the old machine's hard drives, and connect them up as extra drives on the new machine. At least, that's what I do. Comments, Dan3? -- Carl

To: John Stichnoth who wrote (33568)	11/2/1999 2:20:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Re: Maybe Tench and Dan3 can weigh in on this? If this is a home machine that doesn't produce a revenue stream (you aren't using it for a home business), put your money into a good monitor and a 7200RPM hard drive that's larger than you can ever imagine needing. Get a K6 or Celeron at 400 to 500 MHZ, 18 months from now, bring the box into a shop and have them move the hard drive into a new box. The rate at which at your dollars will buy you more in the future is such that, if your replacement cycle is 4 years, you should break up the purchase into these two parts. 18 months from now, all the questions about Rambus, DDR, etc. will have been answered and you'll have a very easy time deciding to select one of these technologies, or maybe something else - and whatever you get will be faster and cost less too. Regards, Dan