🚀 go-pugleaf

I have a fairly basic question that I want to make the answer clear to myself
and possibly others.

Why should I buy a 486SX-25 or 486DX-25 or 33, when I can buy a 386DX-33 for
the same money or much cheaper and later upgrade to a 486DX2-66?

This is, of course, with the understanding that:
	a. I am of limited budget.
	b. That I don't need the incredible speed at this point in my life.

I keep hearing all of this propaganda that I should buy a 486SX-25 or even a
386-40 and all I can say is 'why?'  If I buy a 386-40, just what can I upgrade
it to?  If I buy a 486SX-25, I can only upgrade it to a 486DX2-50.  Where is
the advantage to buy these machines?

"Oh, but the 486SX offers 2 to 3 times the speed!"  Yeah, but who cares...  The
software today is slow on any machine and I don't see the software of tomorrow
being any better.  That increase in speed and increase in price with the
decrease in upgradability just does not justify the cost. 

Oh sure, there are the luxuries of local-bus video and such associated with the
486's, but the way the video cards are optimized around Windows (Windows must
die!!!), who knows what kind of benefits, if any, you are going to get from the
extra couple hundred of dollars spent for it. 

All I'm trying to say is if you are one of the many in the market for a PC,
don't get caught up in the 486 hype and just be sure that you know what you
really need and what you really want to do with the machine in the future.


				Mike.