Have you ever heard your neighbor brag about his new PC. The man hardly knows what a PC is, but he just bought a 3.000$ machine with an “Intel Quatta core of 300Mb” and “a lot of those nice ports on the backside” and oh yeah, “it has windows Vista Ultimate x64, but Vista just sucks a friend told me that”.
If you ask your neighbor about his activities on the PC  he replies, “I’m learning to work with MSN messenger and I browse ebay for stuff with Internet Explopper”.

To come to a point, people buy PC’s just as a status icon. They spend thousands of dollars or euros on a machine that they can hardly operate and do not need. Did you know that MSN-messenger works on an AMD Athlon 1200+ with 256Mb of memory and Internet Explorer as well. A machine like that costs 100$ on ebay, screen included. But no, people directly buy the most expensive things without thinking why they need them or what they can do. 

This is a normal evolution considering that current day PC’s have at least 2,4Ghz Dual core CPU’s and 2Gb of RAM. Have you ever heard of an application that needs 2Gb of RAM, even Vista operating some heavy applications only needs 1Gb of RAM. So PC’s are too heavy for what they have to endure and they keep evolving very quickly, this is not a problem but it’s just not necessary. And when those wealthy Western people enter a shop they choose the most expensive item anyway, without using any brainpower.

So I have a message to all you not-gaming, not IT-professional people out there : Don’t buy PC’s or Laptops that cost 1.500$ or up. If you really want to spend that much money, donate it to a charity organization or finally pay off your mortgage payment. 

If you are wondering why all financial institutes in your country are facing bankruptcy look at your shopping behavior.