Re: Love and Hate

I've had a Gateway brand (well, Gateway 2000 at the time!) 200 MHz Pentium
PC since 1997.

It came with Windows 95 and I upgrade a few years later to Windows 98, which
I am still running today.
I upgraded the hard drive, buying a 40GB at about the same time, though I
still have the original 4GB HD, which has Linux on it now.
I've been through several monitors and keyboards, but the computer itself is
just fine. A bit slow, maybe, but then I haven't bought any new software
since Windows 98 either. Well, I guess I do have a fairly recent version of
Netscape.

I have bought parts this week and will "build" (put together) my new
computer. But just for fun (?!).

I plan to re-install all of my applications, rather than "upgrading" them to
the new PC, but again that's just "for fun", and to start with a clean
slate. There's a lot of junk I don't use on my current PC. I'll keep it
around (or the HD, at least) just in case I want to access something I
haven't used in ages.

>>> Howard Brazee<howard@xxxxxxxxxx> 6/29/2005 7:30:17 AM >>>

On 28-Jun-2005, Joe Zitzelberger <joe_zitzelberger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That is funny. It isn't because there are 30 times as many bought, it
> is because the Compaqs, Dells and various other wintel brands tend to be
> junk that will not last. They remind me of the 'planned obsolescence'
> that Detroit used to do. Even if you do buy the greatest box in the
> world, Micro$oft is going to make it useless when it releases the
> 'revolutionary new OS' that it releases every other year.

I haven't bought a new computer because the computer nor the OS stopped
working
as well as it used to. I've bought new computers because I ran more and
bigger
applications. This is not exclusively a Wintell thing - Apples, Unix
boxes,
mainframes, and even Crays have the same path.

Actually the Windows environment makes it difficult to upgrade, especially
for
people who buy applications on-line which get registered in the registry.
I
know people who want to buy new computers, but are afraid that they will
lose
stuff.


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