----- Original Message ----- From: "Thane Sherrington (S)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 6:34 AM Subject: Re: [H] GooglePC in the future?
And people are forgetting that MS already has a cheap PC that's already in a lot of homes. The X-Box just needs a keyboard and a web browser (there actually is a browser on some of the hacked dashboards) to compete quite
I could sell lots more real computers if the quality of computers had required minimums as vehicles do. Due to safety issues, vehicle manufacturers can not keep cutting the quality etc. like computer manufacturers have done for a decade and still do. Is less than $200.00 per year too much to ask a person to spend on a quality computer and 17" flat panel monitor?
I know the jury is still out on the life of flat panel monitors. If cheap ones are already failing, I don't want to hear it! Cheap anything fails miserably, prematurely! What I want to know is if quality flat panel monitors easily last for over 10 years. I have 5 in my shop/home (Viewsonic) that I paid an average of over $700.00 each (wholesale from my supplier) for back when they were higher. I fully expect them to last well over 10 years. This means that if a person invests $700.00 with me for a real computer and $300.00 for a 17" quality flat panel monitor their annual investment is less than $200.00. If they replace the computer 5 years later (it will most likely still be running and appraise at $200.00) they most likely will not have to replace their monitor.
No, you do not have to spend a grand for a real computer and large 17" (bundled monitors are mostly 15") flat panel monitor. You can buy an abbreviated computer. Many are being discussed here. Speaking out about imitations gives me the opportunity to infrequently counter offer my idea of sticking with real computers, not name brand junk and imitations or online access boxes.
Yall let me know if you see a sudden drying up of the availability of components to build real computers. I want the opportunity to build me one more real one while I can. That will give me at least another 5 happy years of troublefree computer performance. I am not a disbeliever when some say my heyday is almost over! I just want to go down swinging!
Chuck
