After spending part of today looking at laptops, I’ve come to a conclusion: the prices never really drop all that drastically. I’ve considered buying one a few times in the last few years, and ended up with the same price range each time. Of course the explanation is simple: that same figure would have bought me 100Mhz, 400MHz, or, now 800MHz at the time of shopping. On the other hand, the necessary software takes up more and more space, so buying the speed of two years back isn’t really an option.
Since the machine I’m typing this on is about 6 years old, I think I’m about due for a replacement. Actually, the one I’m on now was about three times what I’m looking at spending this time, by the time we bought the printer, Photoshop, etc, so it’s not really true that prices don’t go down. This one was fairly expensive for that time, though -- and Macs have generally cost more.
Other than that, I’m taking advantage of a lazy and stormy Saturday to indulge in two of life’s pleasures: popcorn with salt and butter (NOT margarine) and, for once, enough time to read. I think today’s dinner may even feature real cooking, albeit of the simplest sort.
Posted by dichroic at April 21, 2001 02:31 PM