Anyone else notice how cheap technology things have become?

[mixxalot]

My new Toshiba laptop cost less than 2 years ago

Bought me one with
-4Gb RAM
-320Gb Hard Drive
– webcamera
– 15 inch screen
– DVD combo drive

For under $900. My last Toshiba has 2Gb of RAM and 160Gb drive and I paid twice that 2 years ago. Amazing how much hardware has dropped in price. I also bought a new 32Gb flash thumb drive for under $90. Now I am waiting for 64Gb and 128Gb thumb flash drives to become cheap so that I can run a bootable server with Linux and Oracle database on it. That would rock to have portable servers on the fly!

[Carl Veritas]

Because of slacking demand and rapidly advancing technology, your dollar is actually buying more gizmo?

And do I detect a hint of satisfaction?

Why that is the unacceptable bogeyman some economists call deflation.

Nurse, inject the patient with our new liquifying elixir TARP, pronto! We must get the prices, er, patient to rise immediately.

[Carl Veritas]

Because of slacking demand and rapidly advancing technology, your dollar is actually buying more gizmo?

And do I detect a hint of satisfaction?

Why that is the unacceptable bogeyman some economists call deflation.

Nurse, inject the patient with our new liquifying elixir TARP, pronto! We must get the prices, er, patient to rise immediately.

[Carl Veritas]

Because of slacking demand and rapidly advancing technology, your dollar is actually buying more gizmo?

And do I detect a hint of satisfaction?

Why that is the unacceptable bogeyman some economists call deflation.

Nurse, inject the patient with our new liquifying elixir TARP, pronto! We must get the prices, er, patient to rise immediately.

[Carl Veritas]

Because of slacking demand and rapidly advancing technology, your dollar is actually buying more gizmo?

And do I detect a hint of satisfaction?

Why that is the unacceptable bogeyman some economists call deflation.

Nurse, inject the patient with our new liquifying elixir TARP, pronto! We must get the prices, er, patient to rise immediately.

[Carl Veritas]

Because of slacking demand and rapidly advancing technology, your dollar is actually buying more gizmo?

And do I detect a hint of satisfaction?

Why that is the unacceptable bogeyman some economists call deflation.

Nurse, inject the patient with our new liquifying elixir TARP, pronto! We must get the prices, er, patient to rise immediately.

[urbanrealtor]

Crap.
My eyes are hurting trying to work out dependencies on my apache installation.

I think installing it on my laptop which cost 400 in 2005 is perhaps a bad idea.

[urbanrealtor]

Crap.
My eyes are hurting trying to work out dependencies on my apache installation.

I think installing it on my laptop which cost 400 in 2005 is perhaps a bad idea.

[urbanrealtor]

Crap.
My eyes are hurting trying to work out dependencies on my apache installation.

I think installing it on my laptop which cost 400 in 2005 is perhaps a bad idea.

[urbanrealtor]

Crap.
My eyes are hurting trying to work out dependencies on my apache installation.

I think installing it on my laptop which cost 400 in 2005 is perhaps a bad idea.

[urbanrealtor]

Crap.
My eyes are hurting trying to work out dependencies on my apache installation.

I think installing it on my laptop which cost 400 in 2005 is perhaps a bad idea.

[lonestar2000]

As with all things, you have to match the hardware to the software. Yes, Vista is a resource hog, but so was every single prior revision of Windows when it shipped. Win95 requires 16MB RAM? WTF? Where will I ever get that much?!?

The Mac is no different, the latest and greatest features require up to date hardware to work efficiently.

I paid $1100 (plus tax) for a dual core laptop with 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD (and room for another that can be set up in a RAID configuration), a 17 inch LCD with a built-in webcam, and an Nvidia 8800 graphics card with 512MB RAM. Yeah, it is a laptop and it runs Vista 64 like a dream. Exactly what kind of Mac will I get for that price? A bottom of the line MacBook with barely a GIG of RAM, whoopie!

If you can’t afford $1100 bucks then stick with your old hardware and software, or run Linux and put up with driver incompatibilities, fiddling with repository conflicts, and shoddy support. Enjoy your user support experience there!

[lonestar2000]

As with all things, you have to match the hardware to the software. Yes, Vista is a resource hog, but so was every single prior revision of Windows when it shipped. Win95 requires 16MB RAM? WTF? Where will I ever get that much?!?

The Mac is no different, the latest and greatest features require up to date hardware to work efficiently.

I paid $1100 (plus tax) for a dual core laptop with 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD (and room for another that can be set up in a RAID configuration), a 17 inch LCD with a built-in webcam, and an Nvidia 8800 graphics card with 512MB RAM. Yeah, it is a laptop and it runs Vista 64 like a dream. Exactly what kind of Mac will I get for that price? A bottom of the line MacBook with barely a GIG of RAM, whoopie!

If you can’t afford $1100 bucks then stick with your old hardware and software, or run Linux and put up with driver incompatibilities, fiddling with repository conflicts, and shoddy support. Enjoy your user support experience there!

[lonestar2000]

As with all things, you have to match the hardware to the software. Yes, Vista is a resource hog, but so was every single prior revision of Windows when it shipped. Win95 requires 16MB RAM? WTF? Where will I ever get that much?!?

The Mac is no different, the latest and greatest features require up to date hardware to work efficiently.

I paid $1100 (plus tax) for a dual core laptop with 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD (and room for another that can be set up in a RAID configuration), a 17 inch LCD with a built-in webcam, and an Nvidia 8800 graphics card with 512MB RAM. Yeah, it is a laptop and it runs Vista 64 like a dream. Exactly what kind of Mac will I get for that price? A bottom of the line MacBook with barely a GIG of RAM, whoopie!

If you can’t afford $1100 bucks then stick with your old hardware and software, or run Linux and put up with driver incompatibilities, fiddling with repository conflicts, and shoddy support. Enjoy your user support experience there!

[lonestar2000]

As with all things, you have to match the hardware to the software. Yes, Vista is a resource hog, but so was every single prior revision of Windows when it shipped. Win95 requires 16MB RAM? WTF? Where will I ever get that much?!?

The Mac is no different, the latest and greatest features require up to date hardware to work efficiently.

I paid $1100 (plus tax) for a dual core laptop with 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD (and room for another that can be set up in a RAID configuration), a 17 inch LCD with a built-in webcam, and an Nvidia 8800 graphics card with 512MB RAM. Yeah, it is a laptop and it runs Vista 64 like a dream. Exactly what kind of Mac will I get for that price? A bottom of the line MacBook with barely a GIG of RAM, whoopie!

If you can’t afford $1100 bucks then stick with your old hardware and software, or run Linux and put up with driver incompatibilities, fiddling with repository conflicts, and shoddy support. Enjoy your user support experience there!

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