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To: Ausdauer who wrote (15454)	10/10/2000 4:51:50 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Aus, re: "My point was that the urge to upgrade to a new PC each year or two is now considerably less as microprocessor speed has started to top out (without any appreciable incremental improvement to the average user)" Microprocessor speed is increasing at the same or faster percentage than it has in the past. In addition, expanded memory bus is increasing performance. We are just getting to the point where advanced voice recognition is viable. That's a new interface, and a new interface has always driven new functions and demand. In addition, the PC platform isn't quite to the point where it can reproduce exceptional quality video, but that's just around the corner. re: "and most bays have become standard." Huh? Bays have become less standard. You have DVD's, you have read/write CD's, soon (hopefully) you will have CF slots. re: "The hope would be that end-users have more discretionary income they could use to embellish the relatively bland PC experience most have grown accustomed to." A year ago, people were not using their PC's as jukeboxes, today 25 million Napster users have found a new "bland" use for their PC. In another year, folks will be downloading serious video's to their PC's. Bland is a lot closer to a monochrome Palm "computer". Maybe someday we'll see your post-PC era, today PC functions are increasing faster than they ever have. John