With the new chipsets comeing out the TX and LX that supports fully mmx and
Sdram.And your wanting speed for your system. You better wait a couple of
months. Because the Vx and Hx are about to be history..Same goes with the
video cards Why waste your hard earned $ when better is comeing for the
same price or cheaper.I know i want the fastest for my raceing sims and
other apps But nows the time to wait and see.
> With the new chipsets comeing out the TX and LX that supports fully mmx and
> Sdram.And your wanting speed for your system. You better wait a couple of
> months. Because the Vx and Hx are about to be history..Same goes with the
> video cards Why waste your hard earned $ when better is comeing for the
> same price or cheaper.I know i want the fastest for my raceing sims and
> other apps But nows the time to wait and see.
Unfortunately, "NOW" is ALWAYS the time to wait and see....there finally
comes a point to where you really can wait no longer..think of it as the
calm eye of the storm..the storm being this damn computer technology
race...it seems like , espeicially with the 3-d video cards, it has been
the time to wait--forever! next month, no matter how long you wait ,
seems like something better has come out anyhow!! oh well, you can't
ever win with computers!!! ;)
chris
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lest he thereby become a monster.
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The problem with this strategy is that you are always waiting, and never
get around to making a purchase. This situation didn't seem quite as
bad when I was using 8086 and 80286 machines. But when the '386 came
out, with the SX chip, the '387 FPU, and a number of speeds to choose
from (16, 20, 25, 33, and 40, to name a few), the whole nature of the
industry changed. Very significant changes started happening faster
and faster. While this is frustrating for the newcomer, it is not likely
to change anytime soon.
For roughly $2000 (US), you have always been able to get a pretty decent
machine. But look at what that $2000 will do today, as opposed to 5 years
ago, or 10 years ago. Remember when corporations were paying $10,000 for
a '386 33 "server"?
If you always elect to wait for whatever technology is "right around the
corner", you will never stop waiting. At some point you just have to
draw a line, and purchase as much as your budget will allow at that time.
If one is not currently desperate for new hardware, then a short wait
for new, affordable (relative to one's budget), technology is a reasonable
course of action. However, if one needs new hardware, and may not be
able to afford the latest technology anyway, then waiting may make little
sense. It appears that there will always be something new. The question
is, is it worth the wait?
Just my .02.
Marcus Pless
UCSD Academic Computing Services
