Some people need to be able to gloat that they have the latest equipment and software. ooooh look what I have.

Most don't need it.

Occasioanlly and once in a blue moon software developers do something wonderful and if you need whatever they develop its worth having.

Most people don't use more than 10% of the sofware capability.

The vast majority of people only need a simple wordprocessor, e-mail and the internet.

What in my opinion has changed dramatically is music, photo's and the abilty to send them and websites.

Thats where the rub comes in. As much disk space, memory and processing power are needed for that. So they bring out faster and more powerful machines to handle it. So you finish up buying a new machine.

And so the cycle goes on.