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To: technologiste who wrote (53915)	4/24/2003 1:42:39 PM
From: Marc Hyman	Respond to of 64865

The other conclusion is that PCs become obsolete in less time than does a typical Sun workstation. Why would this be so? (even assuming roughly the same increase in computational power for both). It has been my experience that PCs break. They stop working and it is rarely cost effective to fix them. My Sun equipment does not break nearly as often. As the old Sun equipment has more than enough processing power for its task there is no need to replace it. When I was making purchasing decisions for more than my current very small office full of equipment I took that into account. Down time for equipment replacement was rarely acceptable. On the whole I agree with your other points.