On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:06 AM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote: > Flip side to the buy fast/powerful is that if you don't truly need the > absolute full speed and capabilities then get a cheaper model and when it > dies out due to wear and tear or it becomes too slow for the work in a > couple of years then get another one of the same price range which will be a > lot more powerful then the one you buy today. Then you can keep an extra few > bucks in your pocket or use for something else. Just food for thought and > not necessarily an endorsement of this line of reasoning. > The reason I personally don't do that is to forestall the migration-tax. That is to say, to delay incurring the overhead of moving data, re-installing app, transferring licenses if necessary, recreating my development environment, etc... In short, set me = lazy. :) I'm not disagreeing here - just explaining part of my motivations. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100813/78353c02/attachment-0001.htm