4 years is the sweet spot, most bugs may be potentially worked out and best of all, more options.
LOLI try not to keep up anymore, I stopped back in 2004 and did a fairly good job of it.
My previous cell phone I got was in 2007 up until 3 weeks ago. I also bought another one like it from a guy on Craigslist for $80 because I liked it that much.
I didn't get suckered into the smartphone world (again) until 3 weeks ago when my carrier of 9+ years refused to give me a better offer or the same one that I had without having to pay for the extra freebies they gave me.
But glad they did, dropped them like a ton of bricks, Wind Mobile had that amazing $40 unlimited voice/data/text plan, how could I say no. So I got myself a Curve and I like it. It does the job for me. Although I'm beginning to fall in love with my cousin's Samsung Vibrant. lol
Otherwise, I try not to because of that very reason which you stated Bandit, anything you buy now will be outdated in a few months and the features are always better by the 3rd generation of that model.
I laugh at those who clamour or rush out to get the first new thing that comes out. Beta testers.
(still running XP Pro on a 4 year old machine and have a Dell laptop Inspiron from 5 or 6 years ago as well, runs beautifully)
I'd love to get my paws on a new system, Mac Pro but naaa $$$ pricey and I don't rrreaally NEEED it.
I'd say you have a budding protege, next up is to teach him your canned arguments.....LMAO!!!
It's 14 yrs old now and going strong bottie.
Linux brings old PCs back to life running like new TY!....
LMFAO!!!!!
Note to cobster, if you're looking to be the village idiot in training this is one of the lines you'll want to learn, you'll notice that these canned responses require no relevance to the point. Also you'll note a general "I know you are but what am I" argument strategy most often employed by our village idiot and elementary school students on the playground.
Well someone has to try and help educate the poor clueless rubes on board.....
We do need those keeping up with Jones type tech sheep IMO . They are good for business, help revealing bugs in early gen gadgets. A highly indispensable breed of human guinea pigs within our conusmers eco system, they are ; )...so what was the hurry months ago, when the original is already being replaced...keeping up with the Jones's.
Wasn't there a thread with a poll done on a similar theme and it was found that the large majority were just that 40's and 50's.
Yes although I think we have early adopters, mass adopters and trailers on this thread across those age categories. We may need another category, basement gramps.....
