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In article <a-4Hjkfk6@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)  
writes:
> Basically, I decided several years ago not to buy another computer
> until after college because they become obsolete so quickly.  It's
> pretty damn foolish to spend $5K on a machine that will be obsolete in
> 24 months.

I'm afraid I've never understood this line of reasoning.  My digital webster  
gives me this for the word obsolete:

	1a: no longer in use or no longer useful
	 b: of a kind of style no longer current: OLD_FASHIONED

Now, I'd be extremely suprised if all of our current NeXT line will be no  
longer in use or useful in 2 years.  I suppose that in 2 years, our current  
line of computers will probably not be in the current style, but don't you  
think that buying the latest computer just to stay in fashion is a little  
silly?

> 50 mips and Realtime Renderman is just going to make you
> wish you had 100 mips, which in 24 months will cost you an equal
> amount of money.
>  

Sure, I'd bet this is true... 100 mips in 2 years will probably be at least as  
cheap as 50 mips now.  But, if you continue with this logic, 200 mips in 4  
years will be as cheap as 50 mips now, and so on.  If you start waiting for  
more powerful machines to become cheaper, you'll always be WAITING, and never  
USING the machines.

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