Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!moxie!texsun!newstop!exodus!bari.Eng.Sun.COM!briang From: briang@bari.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: The future of the past mac Message-ID: <2916@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 16 Nov 90 00:37:33 GMT References: <1990Nov15.220217.20055@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 30 In article <1990Nov15.220217.20055@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Dire Wolf) writes: !peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes: ! !>Do I expect Honda to allow me to upgrade my Accord to a Acura NS-X !>for "less that the price of a new NS-X?" Nope, nor does Black and !>Decker let me do something similar with my toaster. ! !>-- michael peirce !*---- ! !I don't expect a toaster to be expandable or easily upgradable. I !do expect that of a computer which is supposed to be more flexible than !a toaster by its very nature. People who buy toaster-computers are not !very foresighted, in my opinion. But I don't think it's fair to expect !computer users to be satisfied with the very same hardware and software !two years down the line. !-- So that makes it more like the car analogy. Again, no car manufacturer I know of "upgrades" cars for any price. "Hobbiest" computer manufacturers frequently do. Like most users, I know when I buy that I probably won't "be satisfied with the very same hardware and software two years down the line", and have to take that into account when I am buying. The same system will have the same capabilities I bought it for, but available capabilities and my expectations will have continued to progress. Sounds like cars again ;-} -- :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: | Brian G. Gordon briang@Sun.COM (if you trust exotic mailers) | | ...!sun!briangordon (if you route it yourself) | :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: