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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. My theory: Do as Slashdot does by ekrout · · Score: 1, Troll

    Write once, never upgrade ;-)

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  2. PC games are obsolete... by silverhalide · · Score: 2, Troll

    Hate to break it to everyone, but the consoles have won the game wars. You can buy a nice, high-end console (PS2/XBox), for the price of a video card these days, and you don't have to pay for OS, processor, drives, etc. On top of that, the games run consitently and are at least on par if not better than many PC games. Quit wasting all your money and buy a damn console already.

  3. I've yet to worry about upgrades... by Squidgee · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lemme see, my upgrades go as follows (Hey, I've not been alive all that long, so my first computer -was- a 286): 286, 386, 486, 400mhz Celeron/old 486 Laptop, 1.5ghz Vaio, 600mhz G3 (iBook). It seems I've actually gone down in processor speeds, by 900mhz in fact! I'd say I'm the opposite of what AMD/Intel want. Oh well, I don't want them, either.