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17 posted on 05/18/2003 4:43:05 PM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)

All markets are "limited."

And some markets are more limited than others.

Market for PCs: big.

Market for cutting edge PCs that cost >$3K just so their owners can shoot their weapons in Quake XXXIV 3/1000ths of a second faster than their opponents: small.

Have you been to a game store lately ?

The computer games are piled in the back of the store like Engleburt Humperdinck and Vanilla Ice CD's. The box games are up front because that is what people want.

The computer has been completely displaced as the favored game platform for graphic intensive games. So that engine generating increasing demand for more and more video capability no longer exists.

Lots of companies are still running Windows NT and after the layoffs and cutbacks of this recession hard pressed systems departments have no wish to undertake the task of upgrading even to Windows 2000.