Centrino Duo, Buy or Wait?

pillageplunder writes "BusinessWeek Columnist Steven Wildstrom answers a readers question on whether or not to buy a laptop with the new Intel Centrino Duo processor. The reader wanted to know if the new chip would be up to handling the Graphic requirements of Microsofts new Vista OS, and whether or not it would cost more. His take? Regarding price, probably not, about performance, right now there is no real way to know for sure. He does a decent job of outlining bug issues with new chips, and what the various vendors say/feel about this chip."

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Xmas Staw Poll

[Quirk]

At home over Christmas I ran a straw poll of family members and visitors. The number of people polled was not that great but it did reflect the buying habits of a swatch of the middle class.

The most interesting result was that those home users, who at the turn of the century, couldn't get enough of new 'puter stuff were now satisfied with their home machines and saw no reason to update. Up until a year or so ago these same buyers were in a frenzy to have bigger harddrives and more ram, now Windows XP and a P4 is sufficient for most of their needs. Their primary need seems to have settled on photography, with scanner/printers being their last buy.

Not that a straw poll over Christmas is much to go on but I suspect the rush to new technology is over. The down side is it looks like my source of free PCs is going to dry up.