In a message dated 7/19/01 5:00:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Yep. My first PC cost me NLG 5,000 (Jan. 1993). My second PC cost me NLG
4,500 (Sep. 1996). My laptop cost me NLG 5,300 (Dec. 2000).
Not much of a drop in price, is it? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
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And of course your new laptop probably weighs 5 lbs (the old ones went on
your desk not your lap I assume since you have been able to conceive a child
in the interim) and has 10 times the memory as your prior two desk tops and
is 10 times faster so the fac that it is the same price as your first system
does not mean you aren't getting your money's worth. It is probably not a
suprise that all of your computers cost about the same amount. You are buying
within a niche determined by your income social situation job etc. This niche
doesn't move much you just get different things for your buck. If this market
were more tigthly controlled then you could be paying less but in fact the
innovations now available on your new laptop would not be present because
there was insufficient incentive for anyone to devise them.
