From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 7:39:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mission.mvnc.edu (mission.mvnc.edu [149.143.2.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 063CA1550C; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 07:39:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu) Received: from localhost (kdrobnac@localhost) by mission.mvnc.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA04693; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:36:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:36:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenny Drobnack To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? In-Reply-To: <199908271414.AA097143240@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Well, hobbyists and savvy bang-for-the-buck may take 32 over 64 if the > bang isn't there, but nowadays that is far from the entire market of > purchasers. You're overlooking the status symbol buyers who just have to > have the latest/greatest and/or something better than the guy next door. > I recall a conversation not long ago with a sysadmin in the business > school here. I was asking what their typical laptop configuration was > and was told that some members of their faculty were quite particular > about finding out what their colleagues machines had and then making > sure theirs was more/better/faster, etc. I highly doubt this kind of > purchasing only happens here. :-) Good point. I know it happens, but is it the majority of the market? ----- We are now the Knights who say... "Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG! Zoom-Boing! Z'nourrwringmm!" ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message