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Technology Stocks : Intel Corporation (INTC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (149084)	11/21/2001 3:25:59 PM
From: Scott Meyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"Except that this is not the perception of your average buyer. It's not your opinion that matters here, it's the opinions of the masses, and Intel marketing tells them they need a shiny new Pentium 4 on their desktop." Correct, I'm not an average buyer, however, this lack of need to upgrade is a qualitative difference between the current time and, say, ten years ago. The marketing has remained constant. Marketing works to drive car sales, because an older car is so obviously old. But you can't tell what vintage of CPU you're running just by looking at the screen. When you use your 1999 PC, there's nothing to remind you that you really should upgrade. And if cash is a little tight, there's lots of reason to make do with what you have...