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Ma.... I killed the upgrade path...
Yep Gyula. You're right. Intel and Microsoft killed the upgrade path when they outrunned Apple and IBM (who hinted on ditching the PC in favor of its own PowerPC), by offering cheap motherboards to Dell, HP, Acer, Compaq, Toshiba and Lenovo.

Now, with PCs in the under $500 ranges and servers in the $1,000 ranges, companies have no excuse to upgrade, since there is no real difference between a 3 year old $1000 dollar Pentium III with Windows XP and today's $600 Core 2 Duo with Vista. Even, to a point, yesteryear's machines are sturdier specially in the laptop segment.
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