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To: Road Walker who wrote (151509)	12/7/2001 2:33:45 AM
From: ptanner	Respond to of 186894

John, re: "I wonder what percentage of the market is upgrades, rather than PC's?" Well, each time I am involved in building a computer I think about the upgrade potential... however, out of working with a dozen systems in the last two years none have been upgraded. This is probably too short of a period of time but most of the time it is simpler just to build an additional box and the former is either a secondary system or is handed down. Existing systems I am involved with have typically either died (deservedly of very old age) or are so old that a mobo/CPU/memory upgrade results in the salvage of only the drives. Still, this would not be a "new PC" in the traditional market counts but would tally as a CPU sale. As the CPU becomes a smaller and smaller portion of system costs (flat OS and more value processors) I could see a trend towards more CPU replacements. However, I think we would see this more on SD and home built systems than large OEM systems (just MHO as my last OEM system had minimal CPU upgrade path but this may have been a quirk of the socket-slot-socket transitions and the timing of my purchase). -PT