-=PCTechTalk=- Re: sweet system

Actually, it is "bleeding edge" people and "early adaptors" who both pay too
high a premium.  (Consider the iPod - $599.99, then a few months later
$399.99, and now $199.99) 

-----Original Message-----
From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gman
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 1:58 PM
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: sweet system

I think what Larry's referring to is that brand new technology is always
offered at a severe premium.

Take SATA 3.0 Gb/s hard drives as an example.  At today's prices:

Size:              Low Price (US):           Price per GB:
80GB             35                                 0.4375
160GB           42                                 0.2625
250GB           49                                 0.196
500GB           75                                 0.15
750GB           100                               0.133333
1000GB         180                               0.18

By doing some simple math, Price divided by size, it's easy to find the
sweet spot in hard drive deals.  Just a couple of months ago, it was 500GB
drives and even the cheapest 1000GB drive was priced out of range for most
folk's budgets.  Now, it has moved forward to the 750GB monsters, but a
large part of that is due to a lack of offerings for drives that exceed
1000GB.  In other words, top capacities have not increased since those 1TB
(Terabyte) were introduced over a year ago, so they have no choice but to
lower prices across the board to get more of the larger ones sold.

Of course, the chart above doesn't take into consideration such options as
larger internal caches, parallel magnetic recording, specific model
reliability, length of warrantee, etc., but it should give everyone an idea
of how to approach comparing prices on components if they wish to get the
most bang for their hard earned money.

Peace,
G

"The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked"

----- Original Message -----
From: "suzanne" <lailoken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 1:15 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: sweet system


>I beg to differ... but the system that I built for myself, at around $2k, I
> could have built 6 months later for under $1k.  and it wasn't *bleeding
> edge* at all.  but then again, that is only my personal experience.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Southerland" <larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:04 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: sweet system
>
>
>> "Bleeding-edge" systems generally have higher margins than do systems
>> "behind the power curve," so there generally isn't as much value lost in
>> lower-priced systems.  (IMHO) 


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