No Need to Upgrade that PC? 502
An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post (free reg.) has an interesting article about a developing trend in the computer retail business: People aren't buying new PCs. Why? Well, no suprise to those who read this, but grandma and Joe Sixpack don't need a screaming new P4 to surf the net and write letters. Are they just figuring this out?"
Erm windows? (Score:5, Funny)
No will need to upgrade (Score:5, Funny)
Well... (Score:3, Funny)
That all depends on the browser [mozilla.org].
***ActiveSX ducks
But ... but ... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm so confused, I just don't know who to believe anymore!
Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Erm windows? (Score:5, Funny)
Intel Giveth, and Microsoft Taketh Away.
games? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Obviously.... (Score:3, Funny)
Sure they are, they're just playing them on their Playstation 2 like sensible people. =)
Using a computer to play games... (Score:2, Funny)
Oh, wait.........
Re:It IS news to the readers (Score:5, Funny)
Not so fast... (Score:2, Funny)
My wife doesn't like beige (Score:2, Funny)
When our 166 mh pentium died (MB problem) I picked a cheap little pIII box out of a catalog. I thought that an upgrade to windows 98 or 2000 (whatever was lying around my dad's office) and a dsl line would solve all of our computer problems.
My wife had a conniption: we just painted, framed pictures and hung track lights in the office and she was d***ed if I was gonna clutter it up with some mismatched frankenstein beige thing.
It's not all her fault. When we got to the store I upgraded to a flat screen, better sound and more memory. I still have not burned any vinyl to cd, my ostensible excuse for the upgrades.
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