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

To: Buckwheat who wrote (27619)	1/4/1998 11:15:00 PM
From: Investor A	Respond to of 1571040

Buckwheat, In short, you have to be stupid enough to buy the overpriced system with Intel Inside. :)

To: Buckwheat who wrote (27619)	1/5/1998 1:13:00 AM
From: charles moore	Respond to of 1571040

My point exactly: Most people would not need the requirement as a serious Gamer etc. bit there are people who just have to have the fastest even if marginal say 3-5% and are willing to pay the big bucks.Most people would probably not be able to tell the difference much like the Musician who plays by "Ear" and can hear the slightest change but most people could not tell. I got my 233Mhz MMX system several months ago from a "screwdriver" shop 48 megs ram,Diamond Stealth 4 Meg Video, 64 Awe Soundblaster,24X CD ROM and a 15 inch monitor for $1500.00.Even now including monitor the same System is about the same price at say Comp USA but is about $200.00 cheaper in the Screwdriver shops and I still havent for my purposes used the full potential. I am only repeating what the articles now say and whether you read the articles and take the advice or get the advice from somebody else irt is going to have an effect.One is always reading that people arent paying the same as last year for Christmas presents etc because they dont know with all the downsizing etc they will have a job later this year. The biggest bank System in Florida which is Barnett Bank is being bought up by Nations Bank and they are already talking about eliminating as many as 6000 jobs by the end of January for instance. If you worked for Barnett and still wanted to buy a Computer would you buy the $3000 one from Gateway or Computer city or the $1000 one from the screwdriver shop that did all you needed it for? Charles