On May 12, 2005, at 3:28 AM, Gerald Wilson wrote:
And there's "true worth" to me, in the sense of what it would actually cost in time, effort and money to replace something currently working and doing a good job if I was forced to replace it because it was stolen (or if I chose to replace it voluntarily), compared with the benefit in time-saved, effort-saved and money- earned from a modern replacement, etc.
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Yes, there are a lot of considerations. I think that is what Peter was after when he said my view was "simplistic". The simplistic rules are often useful to help measure or contrast to what we might value; I seldom find them useful as absolutes.
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Values get confused in a world of giveaway hardware.
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Sometimes I have had regrets that "progress" is or has crushed some hardware of software I really like. The B&W G3, 7100, and Illustrator 8 fit that like a shoe. I was really worried that Tiger and Adobe CS would mark the end for the B&W; I don't think it has. The Mini is putting a lot of pressure on older Pro Macs. It is had to buy $300 worth of upgrades for five year old hardware when the Mini is $500.
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Good advice about your experience that upgrades don't add resell value. Noted with thanks.
I first saw that with used bicycles when working in bike shops while going to college.
Roger
On 12 May 2005, at 00:40, Roger Harris wrote:
I support Macs and PCs for small companies and indivduals. The small companies are ad agencies, design groups, screen print and sign shops. I have developed some upgrade rules I suggest to clients and myself.
Do not spend more upgrading than the computer is worth at the present time.
Try to make the upgrades capable of being reused on a later computer...example: Drives that will work on another Mac you may have later. If I thought I was going to be getting a G5 later I might buy SATA drives and adapter for the older Mac to use the SATA. I would not count the cost of the adapter against the upgrade value equation. Because of the universal portability, you almost never waist money on hard drives.
I never look at the top CPU upgrades; Pick the sweet spot. On a Sawtooth it is probably a $200 one GHz. This probably all the BUSS will do efficiently anyway.
Keep all the old parts to reinstall to the Mac when you are ready to sell it. The upgrades never ad any real value to a used computer. Put the old parts in a and sell. Sell the upgrades on their own.
Better yet, keep the old mac to use in a different way or give to the family. I have several older souped up macs I put out on extended loan to people in need. These macs are more valuable this way than the little I could sell for; And I usually need money pretty bad.
Roger
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