>> Well, hobbyists and savvy bang-for-the-buck may take 32 over 64 if the >> bang isn't there, but nowadays that is far from the entire market of >> purchasers. You're overlooking the status symbol buyers who just have to >> have the latest/greatest and/or something better than the guy next door. >> I recall a conversation not long ago with a sysadmin in the business >> school here. I was asking what their typical laptop configuration was >> and was told that some members of their faculty were quite particular >> about finding out what their colleagues machines had and then making >> sure theirs was more/better/faster, etc. I highly doubt this kind of >> purchasing only happens here. :-) > > Good point. I know it happens, but is it the majority of the >market?
Who knows? But what's so important about being a majority? There's plenty of money to be made in selling to a significant market share that doesn't numerically constitute a majority. Besides, there's much greater mark-up potential in the status symbol market than the bang-for-buck market. Just ask Nike... -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
