On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:31:47PM -0500, Christian wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Point and shoot cameras are like personal computers. Relatively > >disposable, and quickly surpassed on feature/benefit/price. > >I think DSLRs can be equated more to mainframes, more capable, and while > >quickly surpassed, still eminently functional for a very long time. > > Bill, that's a great analogy. My company (the largest "online" company in > "America") uses some pretty old server hardware, but it chugs along and > does the job well. In comparison, I upgrade my PC about every year or two.
I think even those days are coming to an end. I used to upgrade our home PCs every 18 months to two years (staggered, so the older machine could be as much as four years old by the time it got replaced), but there's no real pressure to replace two-year-old hardware nowadays. Our main home machine is a 2.8GHz P4 (with 1GB of memory), and it is still easily fast enough for anything. My (work-supplied) notebook is over two years old (2.4G/512MB), and still seems more than capable (although, admittedly, it did just get a disk upgrade, at a price which would pay for a low-end home PC).
