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To: Poohbah
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.

19 posted on 05/18/2003 4:45:39 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: Timesink
The cutting-edge hardware doesn't STAY cutting-edge very long. I just upgraded to an Athon 2100 running WinXP about a month ago.
21 posted on 05/18/2003 4:46:26 PM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: Timesink
"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."

Maybe if you go and by the latest and greatest Dell, you will spend 3k. If you go to a local computer store and have them build you a mid range computer for gaming, you will pay less than 1k and have a very decent gaming PC. Remember, you don't have to go out and buy a monitor, speakers, printer, mouse, keyboard, USB devices every time you want to get a new PC. You could build it yourself and save even more money than from a local computer store. I used to do this. These days , I would rather pay a few extra bucks to have someone else build me a PC with the parts that I want.

77 posted on 05/18/2003 5:54:56 PM PDT by Crispy
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