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To: ScotMcI who wrote (10168)	2/6/2002 4:04:06 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10921

The US PC market may be saturated. Maybe not, though. A lot of the friends and family members who have inherited my older systems are now looking at buying new systems precisely because the technology has stabilized a bit. They're willing to buy new systems precisely because they aren't worried that they'll be obsolete before they're paid for. The global market, meanwhile, is barely getting started. Katherine

To: ScotMcI who wrote (10168)	2/7/2002 9:33:35 AM
From: Robert Douglas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10921

I'm a bigtime computer geek and I've been sticking with my 2-year-old 733 MHz system because there's been no compelling reason to upgrade. Scott, I recently replaced my 400 MHz Pentium II with a 1.8 GHz Pentium 4 and I love it. I don't feel the money was wasted at all. While I certainly think that the replacement cycle has been lengthened, it hasn't been repealed. I doubt very much that you're going to keep your current system forever. I'm even a big fan of Windows XP. In the months that I've been running it, I don't think it's crashed once. My family has other computers and I am definitely planning on upgrading them at some time in the future.