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i don't work for them, just a very satisfied customer
When I graduated in 2000 from a college in the Austin area I had an on-campus interview with Dell. I asked the recruiter the following question:
"After this current PC sales boom is over, what leads you to believe that Dell's sales will remain steady, allowing you to keep all of the workers you are currently hiring?"
His answer was that people will not be satisfied with their computer after a couple of years and will want to upgrade.
I said, "So you think these people are going to need to upgrade their entire box, monitor, printer, keyboard, mouse, etc. every couple of years. I find that to be very unlikely."
They guy nearly tossed me out of the room. He really just got red in the face and ended the interview quickly. Needless to say he didn't get the job. I still dream about the mindless idiot in the unemployment line when the Silicon Hills turned into a tech graveyard.
I'm finally about to get a new mobo and CPU now that I my AMD 500 is sputtering a little bit, but don't need an entire new system.
There were really 3 groups in on this game trying to force consumers to upgrade every couple of years.
1) Intel 2) Microsoft 3) Desktop PC makers
Intel and the PC makers teamed up to market computers to consumers in a way to make them believe that a computer is obsolete just because there are faster ones available...who cares. Unless you are a gamer, graphics designer, etc. why do you need anything faster the 1GHZ? Instead of simply understanding that most desktop users would be satisfied with a certain speed and keeping that speed of desktop on the market while lowering prices, they keep increasing the speed to keep the prices steady.
Where MS plays into this is they realease crappy software like Win XP. They basically say hmmm, let's waste tons of processing power by adding a PLUS type package onto Win2k. This way we'll make Intel and the PC makers happy by effectively forcing users to upgrade to be able to run our new system. Oh, and just in case any of those people don't want/can't afford to upgrade their hardware, let's add pressure by telling them that the software we used to release was extremely buggy and insecure...oh, and we don't support it any more.
This is why I do value AMD's new statements regarding their company being more aware of the consumer, and not just processing speed.
Extremetech.com has had some pretty good articles on "Rolling your own TIVO" going for a while on building your own system. Discusses hardware and software options.
I'd have to say I'd prefer LINUX, one reason being it was good enough for the commercial product TIVO.
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i don't work for them, just a very satisfied customer
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When I graduated in 2000 from a college in the Austin area I had an on-campus interview with Dell. I asked the recruiter the following question:
"After this current PC sales boom is over, what leads you to believe that Dell's sales will remain steady, allowing you to keep all of the workers you are currently hiring?"
His answer was that people will not be satisfied with their computer after a couple of years and will want to upgrade.
I said, "So you think these people are going to need to upgrade their entire box, monitor, printer, keyboard, mouse, etc. every couple of years. I find that to be very unlikely."
They guy nearly tossed me out of the room. He really just got red in the face and ended the interview quickly. Needless to say he didn't get the job. I still dream about the mindless idiot in the unemployment line when the Silicon Hills turned into a tech graveyard.
I'm finally about to get a new mobo and CPU now that I my AMD 500 is sputtering a little bit, but don't need an entire new system.
There were really 3 groups in on this game trying to force consumers to upgrade every couple of years.
1) Intel
2) Microsoft
3) Desktop PC makers
Intel and the PC makers teamed up to market computers to consumers in a way to make them believe that a computer is obsolete just because there are faster ones available...who cares. Unless you are a gamer, graphics designer, etc. why do you need anything faster the 1GHZ? Instead of simply understanding that most desktop users would be satisfied with a certain speed and keeping that speed of desktop on the market while lowering prices, they keep increasing the speed to keep the prices steady.
Where MS plays into this is they realease crappy software like Win XP. They basically say hmmm, let's waste tons of processing power by adding a PLUS type package onto Win2k. This way we'll make Intel and the PC makers happy by effectively forcing users to upgrade to be able to run our new system. Oh, and just in case any of those people don't want/can't afford to upgrade their hardware, let's add pressure by telling them that the software we used to release was extremely buggy and insecure...oh, and we don't support it any more.
This is why I do value AMD's new statements regarding their company being more aware of the consumer, and not just processing speed.
Extremetech.com has had some pretty good articles on "Rolling your own TIVO" going for a while on building your own system. Discusses hardware and software options.
I'd have to say I'd prefer LINUX, one reason being it was good enough for the commercial product TIVO.