When someone like me thinks "No, I don't need an upgrade. My computers are many times faster than I need as it is.", I'm sure lots of people are thinking that, and it spells "deep hurting" on the horizon.
I've been in that mode for quite some time now. And I'm in one of those professions that NEED the latest and the greatest. But,(for now) I'm not even upgrading AutoCAD. I am already producing work that used to take hours on the computer in a matter of minutes. I can't justify the extra expense of an upgrade when it won't improve the situation any further.
I have one type of project that used to take 4 hours to complete back in the days of the 486. Now it takes 20 minutes, mostly because I'm that slow with the input. The only thing I'm really considering upgrading at this point is the printer (could possibly shave 4-6 minutes off the 20 minute project). Other than that the only thing I might do is bump up the RAM in the video.
Every time I've bought computers and tell the sales staff what I need they always call me a "power user". I don't know if that's true, but until the PIII's came out I could always count on "short breaks" waiting on the machine to do something. As long as I'm not waiting on the machine...why upgrade?
If the rest of the CAD departments out there are thinking this way...deep hurting may be an understatement.
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