How Long will it be before my PC is obsolete?

Let me get my crystal ball…….
The IRS says your PC depreciates over five years. Yea, into a paper weight. A year after you buy you're PC, it will seem like an old friend. After 2 years it will seem a little dated. At three years, it will let you know when it's winded, then you'll suddenly realize your right back where you started. By occasionally updating memory, hard drives, faster modems, etc., you can comfortably stretch that to almost five years. When its time to retire your old PC, the well thought out upgrades can often be added to a new PC. Sometimes offsetting the cost if you dont need a modem, snd card, etc. because you upgraded the year before. In my family, hardware is often a hand me down proposition when somebody gets the latest and greatest. This is the best reason not to buy the TOP of the line. Your best value is always the model below the top of the line. Example if the currant 333 is the top of the line then look at the 300. The $120-$200 premium is not worth the dismal 6% performance increase. Your 300 is not going to give up the ghost one second before that 333 and you can put that $200 into more memory, a bigger hard drive and you'll more then make up that 6%.

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