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to...@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Duke Toma) writes:
>joe...@dumbo.cc.utexas.edu (Ajaipal Tanwar) writes:
>>Why should they support the 486 a year from now? By then, the P5 and it's like
>>should drop below $2000 and be readily available. Why not take advantage of
>>all that processing power, especially when your goal is to create worlds? If
>>you can't run their games with your setup, don't buy them. They will still make
>>plenty money, and when you do get an adequate system, you can get it too.

>	Why do people keep talking like Pentiums are still outragously
>priced?  There are systems available NOW for under $2000 and it hasn't
>even been cloned yet.  If and when AMD and Cyrix make their own 586's
>the prices will drop considerably more.

	Well, I don't know about over there, but down here they still are
"expensive" (ie for an upgrade... I am in no mood to dump my WHOLE system to
buy a new one).  But more than that, what will happen to those people who buy
Pentiums now only to find that in about a year and less from now - when the
P6/686 and the Power PCcome out - those pentiums may become "obsolete" as 486's
are starting to become now?


>	If you have a low end system,
>which some 486's are, then you can't expect games to run %100 like designed.

	To be honest, I DO.  The 486 is still a chip with tremendous processing
power... just because there are faster chips out there it does not mean that
this chip is obsolete.  If coding does become "tighter" (like OSI did with the
WC Armada ENGINE) then you can play games decently.  Of course I realise that
SVGA full animation is a little out of the way of the 486 because of the SVGA
processing requiremnts, but I cannot think of more than a dozen titles out there
that use full screen SVGA processing.


>My point is that you don't NEED a Pentium to run new games.  Unless
>you have the money to upgrade your system every time any new piece
>of equipment comes out, you might have to deal with a little slow-down
>here or a pause there.  And if a game is absolutely unplayable on
>your system, wait until your next upgrade.  You'll find it a whole
>lot cheaper, and may even decide it's not worth buying.

	Good points.

							- Falcon