FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for December 17, 2009
December 16, 2009
December 18, 2009
Transcript:
Jasonezer: Hey, why's that lady scavenging through my computer equipment?! Leave that alone, do you hear me?! That cost me an arm and a leg! Woman: Video card... obsolete. Hard drive... obsolete. CD-Rom, modem, CPU... obsolete. Jasonezer: Dickens wasn't kidding this future stuff is painful. Woman: Hmm. Maybe those tattered curtains are worth something.
Rakkav about 15 years ago
Not very far into your future, at that.
DolphinGirl78 about 15 years ago
Pretty much the next day with how software and hardware gets released these days…
unidawn10 about 15 years ago
Yeah, it’s like a waste of money to buy them and then they are worthless by the next month. Persons should make them rentable then recycle obsoletes.
treBsdrawkcaB about 15 years ago
I never buy any technological item right when it comes out because 1) I get by well with what I already have. 2) I don’t have lots of money. 3) I know that I’ll have buyer’s remorse in a few weeks when I see it on sale for less than what I paid.
I will usually buy stuff that is just now getting replaced with the Latest & Greatest and it is, therefore, usually much less than the original price.
drdoctor about 15 years ago
Speaking as someone who has a 7.5 yr old hulk of a tower that still does 90% of what I want it to do… and do it well… I made it w/ parts that were half-a-gen behind the cutting edge, then made appropriate gfx and ram and hrddrv upgrades as necessary about once each at mid-point. So I can’t run any of the newest games–but as a console player, that doesn’t matter, does it?