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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (64263)	1/18/2002 8:46:50 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

It's via a second computer. That's why old computers have big value today... Personally, I have lots of monitors lying around - especially after I switched to flatpanels on some of them. If you have a Pentium 200, a Pentium 500 and a Pentium 1.6 GHz, why should you not be able to get 1.6GHz speed on three computers instead of one? It would be utterly waste of money not to have 1.6GHz application speed on your 500MHz computer. And personally I hate to keep many computers up to date in hardware. In a family with 5 people you could easily buy 3-5 computers a year to be up-to-date, but you could also just switch to Linux and buy one every year. I have reduced my hardware spendings a lot after I switched to Linux for my primary tasks. I only keep one computer up to date in hardware. And I'm not the only one - sales of X-Windows software for Windows has exploded.