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On Sun, 12 Nov 1995 pinhead@inlink.com wrote:

> You gotta relize there will always be price drops.  If you wait till
> the market is going to stabalize you will never buy a PC.  While you'd
[...]

Yes.  There comes a point, like diving into a freezing swimming pool, 
where you just have to take a breath and make the jump (this of course 
implies that you are intent at diving in at some point).

> prices to wholesalers at any time.   Buy your computer and never look
> at these newsgroups again, the falling prices will make you sick :)
 
Not bad advice though nevertheless I would wait until the next quarter.  
Though this argument could go on forever, if you DO wait until the 1st 
quarter of next year to buy, you may be able to pick up a P5-133 for a 
great price because of the release of the 150 in addition to the normal 
price drop.  Also, it allows more time for the fledgling 
Apple/Firepower/etc PowerPC vendors to make the competition heat up a bit 
more (more volume on the PPC 604...hopefully) which could end up driving 
the Pentium prices down more than they otherwise might.

I am waiting until January-to-March in order to purchase a new Pentium
motherboard with burst cache and all the other acoutrements - PLUS the
fact that by then, there will be more versatile boards that can handle
from 90 to 150 or 180 Mhz, leaving me the option of further relatively
cheap upgrades in the coming two years.  Right now, I have found only a
couple of vendors that can supply boards that are able to accept a 180 Mhz
pentium...and they are a bit steep.  By waiting just a little while
longer, I can get a top of the line system with the capability of further
growth into chips that aren't even available yet.  As far as the computer
market goes (which is much like the auto market) this helps maintain my
investment value for a little longer...buy near the top with room to grow
and it wont immediately be obsolete to the same extent as is usually the
case. 

poneil@genetics.utah.edu