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["Anthony Atkielski" <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>]

Derek writes:

> Well, that's why you plan for upgrades in advance
> rather than having to do them at the last moment.

I can't do that unless the vendors of the upgrades do that, too.

Besides, why should I plan for upgrades?  I plan a system that does the job, and
so it should never need an upgrade.  I don't plan my car purchases in advance.

> What are you going to do if your motherboard dies
> with no notice?

Try to find money to buy another computer, the same as I would do if a meteorite
hit it.  But that doesn't mean that I plan to hasten its demise.