Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Falling chip prices send shoppers down memory lane

"It's crazy," said Jim Winkey of the precipitous price drop for computer components, a drop which has been going on for at least six months and which shows no signs of reversing direction. The price drop is good news for everyone who wants more speed and power, but who doesn't want to purchase a new computer. According to many computer professionals, the time is ideal for upgrading personal computers.

Winkey is the owner of J&M Computer Services in Lancaster. He sells, builds, upgrades and repairs computers, and in recent months he's seen price drops such as an 8MB (megabyte) upgrade falling from $240 to between $90 and $120, and a Pentium 75 CPU plummeting from $400 to $190. …

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