-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Then there is the issue of "planned obsolescence." Each device will most
likely become obsolete or break at different times. This is a problem with
On Wednesday 14 April 2004 19:29, Martin Norland wrote:
> As far as integrated device - I would advise against this because they
> traditionally aren't as powerful as their separate counterparts.
> Take the nokia n-gage (which a newer model was just announced for) -
> cellphone and game system... in most opinions doesn't do either
> signifigantly well.
Agreed. The same with stereo equipment back in the day. Dual cassette decks
generally had lower performance and worse specs than single ones.
Another issue to consider is what to do in the event that one of the pieces
breaks. For instance, a friend of mine has a cell phone/PDA with a broken
crystal on the PDA.Along those lines, what about when parts of the whole
become obsoleted? You _know_ they won't allow the newer, cooler features
won't be released at the same time, so you will end up spending _more_ money
on the integrated device, and doing it more often as each part of the device
is obsoleted.
- --
- --Brad
========================================================================
Bradley M. Alexander |
SysAdmin, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.org
Debian/GNU Linux Developer | storm [at] debian.org
========================================================================
Key fingerprints:
DSA 0x54434E65: 37F6 BCA6 621D 920C E02E E3C8 73B2 C019 5443 4E65
RSA 0xC3BCBA91: 3F 0E 26 C1 90 14 AD 0A C8 9C F0 93 75 A0 01 34
========================================================================
The most dangerous thing in the world is a second lieutenant with a map and a
compass.
--Murphy's Laws of Combat
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFAfcj3c7LAGVRDTmURAtHNAKCjWEOR185dN4+zzpeU9+1Ngql44QCaAq7B
JTAo7h3PL4VGEvmzc+arSsI=
=dLLV
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
