>Every now and then, I feel the need to blow off steam, and since this
>seems like a good place to do so...
Cool!
>
>I am really tired at how the PC world has become so darn obsolescence
>inducing. Daily, I see machines simply being dumped because "they aren't
>current". Now, with Windows XP being introduced, even 500 mHz is
>considered slow. MicroSoft has made keeping up with the Joneses the order
>of the day.
Well. We are dealing here with a pretty sophisticated operating system
that, just like mac os x, truly needs the horsepower. I can't really blame
them for advancing their technology. The question is: do most users need
this stuff? The answer is: no. I wouldn't be surprised when someday this
huge bubble full of hot air would explode in the faces of the computer
manufacturers. Consumers and businesses will then decide that they don't
need all these upgrades... I think that we just reached this point, because
there have been no significant developments in the application field since
the rise of Web. Why should one buy xp? It won't give you better
webbrowsing.
>
>I remember, not so very long ago (geologically), that everybody was
>consumed with recycling. Many areas still are. Recycling PC's is a task
>that simply isn't going to happen. Even donating these machines to many
>thrift stores or other charitable organizations isn't a guarantee that
>they'll be used. Recently, a nearby thrift store was forced to throw away
>many good computers, and not just PC's. There were Mac's in that
>dumpster; IIfx's, a Classic, and a Quadra. I could only salvage a lone
>Mac monitor, for in their haste to rid themselves of this "junk", they
>simply tossed (tossed!) these computers one on top of the other, pretty
>much smashing the Classic's CRT and every other Mac case. The only other
>computer that was salvageable was a lone IBM PS/2 Model 55 SX. Why
>couldn't they be sold, even though they were marked all the way down to
>$1 a piece? Because, according to the store manager, they were just
>obsolete. I asked her why, and she proceeded to tell me that the fella
>who comes in to repair the machines told her that the older PC's (486 and
>slower) and the Macs weren't Y2K compliant. And this is what he was
>telling all of the customers...
This is terrible!
Especially since macs have always been y2k compliant. A system 6 mac counts
to 2040 (the year I must die:-). And about the older pc's... Microsoft
released a patch for win 3.1 that makes them 2yk compatible...
Marten
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