[Sussex] Taking the battle to the big boys

[David Chapman]

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 13:44, Geoff Teale wrote:
> Chaps,
> 
> I believe we've reached the much talked about hardware price point where
> software costs are more significant than hardware cost and the power of
> your machine is rapidly becoming irrelevant to the average user.  It'll be
> interesting to see how this pans out in the USA. 

I,ve been telling people that for a long time.
Big bloaty software is driving the (desktop ) market for faster cpu's
and encouraging buyers to spend spend spend on more more more hardware.
I've got a 450 P2 which I find plenty fast enough for what I want
OK so it,s a quad Xeon but that does not make it faster.