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To: Amy J who wrote (178801)	7/22/2004 9:41:24 AM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I'd agree that anybody with a heavy engineering or other "power user" base has a greater need for ongoing upgrades. In my last company, the one group that fell into that category was a small grapic design group who spent 99% of their time in Photoshop, Quark and Illustrator. They got real high-end stuff as well as their own dedicate SAN and gigabit ethernet to link their PCs. They were 6 out of about 800 PCs. Less than a percent. The CFO and a couple of others also got higher end boxes on a regular basis. I did the analysis and it was quite clear to me that they wouldn't benefit one iota from the upgrades (mostly they were waiting on huge database queries across the network, not on processor time), but it made them feel important and they controlled the budget anyway, so it wasn't worth arguing. Do not make the mistake of extrapolating Silicon Valley into the rest of the country's business. Most people in most businesses use their PCs in fairly mundane ways.