Re: [NTLK] Bad guys use PCs

From: Dan (dan_at_dbdigitalweb.com)
Date: Sat Feb 07 2004 - 14:12:30 PST


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From: Tony Kan
Date: Saturday, February 07, 2004 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Bad guys use PCs

Good point. Most of my upgrades on a Wintel machine have been prompted by
the unexpected gift of FPS games like Ghost Recon or Return to Castle
Wolfenstein only to find my graphics systems wasn't up to it!
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Very true, the biggest pusher of upgrades is games. Word processors, email
clients, web browser, etc will run on a Win98 system without any problems.
And most will even run on win95 (so we are talking a few years here). It is
all a matter of what you want to do. If you think about it, console games
have evolved a long way and every few years you end up dumping your old
console for a new one (which is one reason I never got one, no option of
upgrading old hardware, just dumping it and you have to keep the older
version to play the older games usually).

So in short, if you are into the latest games, then you are going to be
upgrading hardware every couple of years. If you just want to do work, then
you can keep the system for a much longer period of time upgrade free.
Unless your work involves video manipulation, or 3d work. Then you are
going to want to upgrade much sooner.

On another note I agree that some of the newer software just gets bigger
every year, and about 99% of most new features you don't need or won't even
find. So keep the older version of your software unless you have a specific
need to upgrade. For instance Norton Antivirus virus definitions still work
even with the older versions of antivirus. And the definitions is what
makes a virus scanner work. Sure they have added newer features such as
mail scanning. But if you are dumping all attachments before they even get
to your inbox, is there really a reason for mail scanning on top of that?

The companies keep making the software bigger every year with more features
because they know if they said "well it is the same as last year, it works
great so there was no reason to fix the unbroken wheel" you would not buy
it. But slap a "New and Improved" label on it and people will buy it just
because it is newer, not because it had a feature they have been wanting
(usually).

-Dan

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