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Technology Stocks : Applied Materials No-Politics Thread (AMAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: w0z who wrote (4776)	1/6/2003 12:31:39 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 25522

OT *** Bill, again I agree. My 400MHz E-machine is not worth $90 for an XP upgrade. It would be like putting a new engine into a '71 Ford Pinto. Gottfried

To: w0z who wrote (4776)	1/6/2003 9:40:10 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25522

more OT maybe I have two choices: 1. An $89 XP upgrade and God only knows what other headaches and wasted time will be involved doing the upgrade. 2. Buy a refurbished system from HP or Dell for about $350 (Celeron 1.5GHz/256MB/30GB/Xp Home) or about $500 for a brand new system (Pentium4 2.0GHz/256MB/20GB/Xp Pro). A similar situation here... my 4yr old win98 PC needs a new graphics card. The graphics cards from 4 yrs ago had 2mb memory and this is causing issues with my system. When I looked into the sheer hassle up upgrading to nvidia or whoever... (I have to figure out where it is an axp or pci card I need etc)... I found out that my system has the graphics on the motherboard! And the new graphics card will cost $150 or so, if I want to go to the trouble of reading the dell instructions on how to disable the existing config. Bottom line- given the benefits of a new system, new software etc. it is not worth upgrading a PC. I will buy new. Pretty much everybody needs more graphics memory than my system has and it was fairly highend when I bought it. Lizzie