Well not really Economics 101 but an observation that as new technology comes out the old technology reduces in price as it moves towards obsolescence.
I’ve always bought my it after its initial fall down the cost curve where it is usually significantly cheaper. Sure, I don’t have the latest technology but I don’t have the hassle of leading edge equipment such as lack of drivers or design flaws.
So as I am looking at my next upgrade I wonder where we are are on the supply curve for some of the obsolete kit we have here.
A few more years before they are at a price I could afford – there is also the question of where you would put one.
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Ivan,
Don’t forget they also shrink in size. Won’t be long before supercomputers are as small as a politicians conscience. Won’t get much smaller than that as they still have to meet the laws of physics.
It has been suggested before that the PPC get involved in blogs but it is impractical. Plus they don’t really need to as our libel laws, Plod and the ISPs gutlessness means that if you wanted to you could shut UK hosted bloggers down easily enough. It’s just another government office looking to expand and it may very well get the chance but it will prove to be ineffective.
Version 2.2 or later is usually better.
James,
We are well beyond 2.2 in hardware. I think we must be up at 50.x by now at least.
But your principle is OK