Hello Dan!

21 Aug 09 04:02, you wrote to me:

 DC>> You are still under the impression that the average user needs
 DC>> that kind of computing power.

 RC>> Whoa Nellie, you are under the impression that people dont??

 DC> Yeah, Nellie, slow down.  Computer asytems are be driven by gamers.

No, that is your misnomer..

I deal with the public and I am selling tech to the public and it is not in
a Best Buy environment, I typically sell to students and businesses.

People also use their systems to deal with video, or as a DVR in
conjunction with their HDTV. Encoding Videos is a processor intensive task,
others are into mastering music or doing other tasks that are more suited
to todays machines..

Businesses prefer systems that contain hdd space suitable to store their
documents and information, they want systems that can handle the load along
with generous amounts of RAM to accomodate several applications open at
once.

 RC>> You cant make that assumption based on your own experiences and
 RC>> usages. (Ergo, whats good enough for moi is good enough for
 RC>> everyone)

 DC> Yet, you make yours based on yours.

Not at all, you arent in touch with the public as I am, I merely tell you
what they come in wanting. If there was not a want, the tech companies
would not be enabling.

Long gone are the days of the computer geek whom fondly remembers DOS, the
xt/at class machines, the Commodore Vic20/64/128, much less the Altair or
early Macs. I see people, even in the middle age to retiree age groups just
now buying their very first computer(s). I see retiree's coming in whereas
one spouse wont touch one, but the other will.

I always tell the customer that when they say they are only wanting a
system to surf internet, do email and a little word processing that they
dont need a backhoe to do a potted plant. I however caution them that they
should be sure they are going to adhere to that usage if they want a lesser
machine, that should they decide to take on other hobbies, such as video,
they might regret it later.

Other customers come in, to replace a 10 - 15 year old machine that has
finally croaked or they discovered that they can no longer do much with
Windows 95-ME.

Some of these customers discovered that 64 megs of RAM no longer cuts it.

I have had many come in having a working machine of that era, but needing
to add a printer or replace one and not being able to find printers that
work with no longer supported OSes and hardware...  (Yes the Parallel Port
is deprecated)

People shouldnt be using Win95-ME on the Internet anyway unless they are
running said OS in a Virtual Machine.

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Ross
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