Don wrote: When I bought the i5 desktop I have now it was priced very nicely, great performance, low price and right there near the point of diminishing returns where you have to pay a lot more for a little improvement.
Don
The i5 is great value for money.
Yes, and by keeping the price nice and low you can upgrade frequently. If you pay thousands for the very best, in 2 or 3 years even granny who buys a cheap computer at Walmart will have something more powerful than you.
I learned that lesson the hard way. I payed a lot of money 30 years ago for the very best cutting edge machine and it was about 2-3 years later than a friend bought a "budget" machine at some department store. He asked me to come over to help him get it set up and even though it was basically entry level crap it was already more computer than I had.
So the lesson, shop wisely and don't pay too much, but upgrade frequently.
Don
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
Well, my system is this: I purchase cutting edge notebooks to my daughters and I receive her old comps. So I have half an dozen, the older an Armada Compaq 1998 vintage, running W95. Besides that I have two old desktop, one really slow, the other average.
For writing and internet and playing chess any of those old machines is enough.
More: as i scarcely go out of home, I have not tables and all that, iPhone, etc. just an old cell phone 5 years old but good to calla and receive calls.
Everything else I consider beyond my needs and so I do not bother. My principle is not to burden myself with techie things i do not need. I do have a Kindle in order to get some old public domain, free stuff, but I still purchase books and I prefer them a lot.
Same with music: CD's are good for me.
Their quality varies with time. In the end, when you're in the center of the disk you get very little distance for the same time, so less information can be encoded and high frequencies are poorly rendered. Most of the time you won't notice it because it's very progressive. But start to listen to a 33 rpm disk and after a few seconds put the arm in the end of the track and you'll notice the difference. No such thing with CDs.
This being said, I think that CDs' sound is too clean, and I like vinyl's warmth.
Isn't the title somewhat a misnomer? I assumed he was referring to someone who acted in a cheap way or is downright nasty. I rushed in to see some revelation and excitement and with bated breath opened the thread....
I knew it cannot be Fern as he is not cheap but a costly member who sells worthless engines at 'astronomical prices' and takes care to see that all his customers are 'happy'.
And what do I see?
I think it must be named :"Poor Member needs advice!"
Just my 0.0025 pence
[quote="Mithu"]Isn't the title somewhat a misnomer? I assumed he was referring to someone who acted in a cheap way or is downright nasty. I rushed in to see some revelation and excitement and with bated breath opened the thread....
I knew it cannot be Fern as he is not cheap but a costly member who sells worthless engines at 'astronomical prices' and takes care to see that all his customers are 'happy'.
And what do I see?
I think it must be named :"Poor Member needs advice!"
Just my 0.0025 pence
No, sorry I didn't have anything bad to say about anyone. Not poor either just looking for the least expensive way to go for something
that for the most part will be a toy.
Best,
Rick
