Yea You Have It, But Is It Needed
So you just purchased that new laptop or desktop, and being that it is the top of the line (or top of your wallet) you are pretty pleased with yourself. But let's ask one question. Is it really needed?
Sounds simple enough, but consider this: a recent statistic I heard says that for all of the iPods being bought, most people do not have but 500 songs on their iPod. An observation of computing over time has shown that most people use their computer for email, Internet, and writing papers. Nothing that requires 4GHz and 100+GB hard drives. So if we have all of this and are not using it, is it really needed?
Maybe a better way of looking at it is to say that "I will always have the ability to do more and I am guarding against obselence of my technology." Sounds good. Except now you are trying to justify reaching over and beyond your needs and all that you would have to do to maintain it.
Please do not hear me wrong. I am by no means advocating that we all need nothing more than a Pentium 1 and enough memoy on our iPods for 500 songs alone. Rather, I would hope that when you are looking at making any technological purchase, that you are considering the needs over what is being marketed to you. When you make a purchase based on your needs, you will never find that it will go obselete (unless it breaks down many years down the line), and you will always find that maintaining it is much easier.
Just something to think about during this time of year when we all tend to look at making new purchases of something.
- sent from Treo
So you just purchased that new laptop or desktop, and being that it is the top of the line (or top of your wallet) you are pretty pleased with yourself. But let's ask one question. Is it really needed?Sounds simple enough, but consider this: a recent statistic I heard says that for all of the iPods being bought, most people do not have but 500 songs on their iPod. An observation of computing over time has shown that most people use their computer for email, Internet, and writing papers. Nothing that requires 4GHz and 100+GB hard drives. So if we have all of this and are not using it, is it really needed?
Maybe a better way of looking at it is to say that "I will always have the ability to do more and I am guarding against obselence of my technology." Sounds good. Except now you are trying to justify reaching over and beyond your needs and all that you would have to do to maintain it.
Please do not hear me wrong. I am by no means advocating that we all need nothing more than a Pentium 1 and enough memoy on our iPods for 500 songs alone. Rather, I would hope that when you are looking at making any technological purchase, that you are considering the needs over what is being marketed to you. When you make a purchase based on your needs, you will never find that it will go obselete (unless it breaks down many years down the line), and you will always find that maintaining it is much easier.
Just something to think about during this time of year when we all tend to look at making new purchases of something.
- sent from Treo
posted by Antoine @ 4/08/2006 11:13:00 AM
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