From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 7:53:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C1B15EB9; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 07:52:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (localhost.graphics.cornell.edu) by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA099545405; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:50:06 -0400 Message-Id: <199908271450.AA099545405@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Kenny Drobnack Cc: Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:36:30 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:50:05 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth 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? 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