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No Need to Upgrade that PC?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the say-it-ain't-so dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post (free reg.) has an interesting article about a developing trend in the computer retail business: People aren't buying new PCs. Why? Well, no suprise to those who read this, but grandma and Joe Sixpack don't need a screaming new P4 to surf the net and write letters. Are they just figuring this out?"

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  1. Erm windows? by shish · · Score: 5, Funny

    Computer power goes up, windows's speed remains constant. If we lag behind with hardware windows'll be going *backwards*

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    1. Re:Erm windows? by Hollinger · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, I suppose this has always been true:
      Intel Giveth, and Microsoft Taketh Away.

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  2. No will need to upgrade by pardasaniman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Until KDE4 is released

  3. But ... but ... by kcbrown · · Score: 5, Funny
    Intel keeps telling me that a new P4 will make the internet go sooo much faster!

    I'm so confused, I just don't know who to believe anymore!

    :-)

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  4. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA by mini+me · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, computer upgrades you!

  5. games? by Flamesplash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Computers were designed to play games? Maybe someone should have clued Babbage, Turing and the rest into this a while ago. We could have some kick ass gaming machines now, though they probably couldn't run notepad.

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  6. Re:Obviously.... by FauxPasIII · · Score: 3, Funny

    > They aren't playing ANY of the latest games.

    Sure they are, they're just playing them on their Playstation 2 like sensible people. =)

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  7. Re:It IS news to the readers by jellybear · · Score: 5, Funny

    They need to teach grandma how to rip DVD to divx. That'll get them buying the P4's