The bad just got badder. 1648

really, the people who are buying the $300 computer aren't really ignorant, nor is those of us who spend $3k. it really depends on your needs, it is impossible to say that spending any set amount on a system makes you ignorant. i'm currently using an $1800 alienware laptop, and at home i have a desktop which i built for roughly $4k, but would retail for more like $7k. does this make me ignorant? no. i use them both for gaming. i actually do security audits and computer forensics work, so i often find myself processing huge amounts of data. i need powerhouse machines to suit my needs. grandma and grampa who go out and buy a $300 machine to get pics of their grandkids across the country emaild to them or people who just need something to get online, create word docs and the like also aren't ignorant, their suiting their needs. 90% of the time, if you don't know the difference between an 800MHz FSB P4 and a 1GHz bus 64-bit AMD FX or the difference between RAID-1 and RAID-10 you're NEVER going to need them! for me and those of us out there it makes sense to buy something that's upgradable so that next year when a new graphics card comes out or when we decide we want more RAM we can put it in, but someone who doesn't know memory from HDD space most likely will never be inside that tower anyhow so does it really matter?

and PDF's can take up a fair amount of CPU and memory time, when you're layering, flatening, printing, and processing ones that are in excess of 200 pages long.

P.S. sorry for the double post before, IE7 Beta2 still has some bugs to work out