[Novalug] Cut-off? (was killer PC)
Jon LaBadie
novalugml@jgcomp.com
Sun Dec 5 23:02:51 EST 2010
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 03:27:54PM -0600, Beartooth wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
>
> > Will be glad to collaborate with anyone who needs assistance in
> > picking out components... :)
>
> That reminds me of a marginally relevant question I've
> been wanting to ask -- I hope not too off topic.
>
> At one point (ca. '98, per Forbes magazine; but I
> suspect conventional wisdom) a corollary of Moore's Law was that
> a plateau or standing wave existed in consumer computers. That
> is, you always got a more than marginally better set-up (PC,
> keyboard, monitor) just above $2000 than below.
>
> Exactly what you got kept sliding up across the board, of
> course; but the cut-off persisted. It was quite handy for a
> first-time home-system buyer, as I then was (and still am for
> such purposes, since I don't speak hardware).
>
> Does any such watershed still exist? If so, where is it
> -- at about what price? (Are there perchance more than one?
My price point is always lower than the system I want :)
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