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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: charles moore who wrote (27598)	1/4/1998 10:22:00 PM
From: Buckwheat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571040

Charles,,, you probably don't even need Intel Inside for Photo ops or "serious" gaming. The only serious gaming I've seen in the past several months is Intel's ability to convince buyer's to purchase marginal performance gains at a big price tag. (And I must confess, they have been good at this). The slob mentioned an obsolescence concern: "What concerns me most is the "mind set" change that accompanies the concept of a sub $1000 PC. In the past you purchased the highest power PC you could find because the cheaper models would be obselete before you had them unpacked." Now how would you feel if you paid $3000 six months ago for a Pentium II (with FX chipset), that was made obsolete two months ago by a $2500 Pentium II (with LX chipset), that will probably be made obsolete again in three months by a $2000 Pentium II (with a BX chipset)? Now why should someone buying a sub-$1000 PC be overly concerned about it becoming obsolete before they get it out of the box? Buckwheat