Is The Latest And Greatest PC Technology Necessary?

September 5th, 2007 | by Bloddard |

With the ever increasing technological advances and the fierce competition between the microprocessor giants Intel and AMD, and the graphic card heavyweights, ATI and Nvidia it is understandable that new innovative and products are coming out with great frequency. And as companies that rely on the sale of those products, they want to shove their products down our throats. But is it really necessary for us consumers to fall for their marketing strategies? Do we really need to upgrade our computers various times per year? Personally, I don’t think so.

For the part of the consumers that don’t use their computers for heavy tasks such as; Video Production, Programming, etc…. having a top of the line PC is just a waste. A waste of money and a waste of the machines power, to name a few. My main computer is about 3 years old and it is still going strong. It is has a Pentium 4 CPU, 4GB of memory, 2 stripped Raptorhard drives, a Geforce 7950GT AGP video card, Audigy 2 sound card, and a few other goodies. Obviously, I have made various upgrades as time has passed and as parts have gotten cheaper, but it is all I need. The games run surprisingly smooth and at a high resolution, I do my word processing, my blogging, my web browsing, some light video editing. It wouldn’t make sense for me to have a Quad-Core computer that has a price range in the thousands, with more features than I need, just to do everyday things. The whole deal with software lagging behind hardware, therefore only selected programs take advantage of multi-cores, makes me think that those of us who still run our relatively dated systems, can rest assured that our computers will still be functional for quite sometime. What do you think?

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