On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:34 PM, yuri <[email protected]> wrote: > With any tech purchase, avoid looking at shop shelves and catalogs and > tech mag ads for a few months after the purchase. Otherwise it'll do > your head in. >
You are right Yuri - but it can be tough. Marketers know very well the power of what I've seen called 'affirmatory advertising' - it's not targeted at prospects like most adverts, but at past buyers, trying to make them feel good about their purchase and thereby build long term customer loyalty. There's also a well known concept called the reticulatory activating system - the phenomenon where your brain notices something more after you have bought it. Think about the last time you bought a car - did you notice how many similar cars you saw just like it and dint realise it was such a common model? Its a brain pattern matching thing. So, try as you might, the combined effects of your brain and the wiles of marketers will... umm... do your head in. Back on topic... I've had a eeepc 900 for nearly two years now. Still very 'content' with it. Runs better with each Ubuntu release. Happy to recommend it. - David
