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Originally Posted by astra
Also I bought Intel P3 some time ago. I believe Intel should upgrade me half price or I will turn my back on them and buy brand new AMD! (I am only a bit worried that in a few years when AMD refuses a cheap upgrade of my system and I turn my back on them as well, where I am going to buy a new PC?...Mac??  ) |
VIA!! or maybe... ditch native x86 and go with RISC!!! Apple uses Intel chips now, so that's out. Severely off topic, I know, but I had to chime in. I'll take any chance to push RISC PC development.
As for my 2 cents in the matter, Sony is treating the PRS like any other technology product. This doesn't make them right or wrong in their decision to somewhat abandon the 500, it's just the way the business works. AMD(ATI) and NVIDIA release newer faster graphics cards almost every 6 months. Intel has revisions for it's chips staged to be upgraded (process shrink or new architecture) each year. The computer hardware business is quick and unforgiving. Even the casual PC enthusiast is often left feeling a bit hollow after making a purchse, knowing their item *will* be outdated within a year. We have to accept that the PRS series is to be treated like any other piece of hardware.
Another example is the XBOX from Microsoft. I bought an xbox about a year before the xbox360 came out. I was quite happy with it. Then the 360 came out and Microsoft completely dropped the first gen xbox. They stopped selling it, stopped software updates, and even stopped producing games for it. All within a month, the change-over to the 360 was quick and harsh. I didn't buy a 360, since my 1st gen xbox was still quite capable. It can't play any new games, but is still entertaining. I'm not angry about it, I just understand that's how things go sometimes.
*As a side note, Sony is still strongly supporting the Playstation 2 even now after the Playstation 3 has been released for a year. They support the mainstream stuff quite well, it seems.*