Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:50:05 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: Kenny Drobnack <kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu> Cc: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Message-ID: <199908271450.AA099545405@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:36:30 EDT." <Pine.GSO.3.96.990827103530.1456D-100000@mission.mvnc.edu>
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>> 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? Who knows? But what's so important about being a majority? There's plenty of money to be made in selling to a significant market share that doesn't numerically constitute a majority. Besides, there's much greater mark-up potential in the status symbol market than the bang-for-buck market. Just ask Nike... -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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