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To: maceng2 who wrote (429)	9/13/2003 9:57:33 AM
From: nolimitz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1417

Good Morning Pearly and thanks for the invite. I agree with many points you make on the IC trends and demand. However not all of them. I too am using a 2001 vintage Pc at home and see no reason to upgrade it until my son demands better game performance. He is 5 so I may have a bit. The pc on my desk at work is a dog dating back to the mid 90's at least. Many are older. The IC company I work for has not updated PC's unless there is smoke coming out the box. Much of the hardware upgrade cycle is due in part to Microsoft. With their lack of backward compability of office suite products to new operating systems, they are in a sense forcing the hand of businesses to upgrade hardware. my work pc will not work with the next os upgrade. I agree there is far too much capacity in IC production and nobody is making any real money, except maybe Ti and Intel. You mention you use or receive items 2nd hand, I commend that effort to recycle. But for that to happen the donor either goes with out or buys a new upgrade. The cycle repeats. There are a lot of folks in the lower income tiers that could also take advantage of this stream of products that are considered obsolete, yet much of it lands up in the local land fill. It's too bad more recycle firms (mom and pop's) have not appeared to fill this niche. I read or saw on TV of one guy who was taking used cell phones from the US and selling them in Mexico and SA. He now runs a multi million $ company. I don't recall the name. Time to get my munckins breakfast. Thanks Pete