price of gaming pcs

[Admiral Kill]

With the coming release of the VISTA O.S. will the price of current gaming rigs (Alienware, Northwestern, etc.) go down or stay the same?

 

[koul_jackson]

Stay the same, really the only reason stuff would change is for 2 reasons...

a. MS might want more money for the actual OS...i highly doubt this will happen because MS is starting to compete more with Apple now. I also suspect that the price will be low because MS will want the "Killer" product launch that ME, XP, and 2k DIDN"T get.

b. Everyone goes 64-bit in a rush and stuff becomes expensive. Again, this won't happen because most people already produce enough support for AMD class processors which have been 64-bit for years now(okay maybe not YEARS, but long enough).

I suspect that VISTA will come out, people will upgrade, and then for the rest of the year we'll be answering questions on troubleshooting MS Vista...

 

[giant384]

a new OS has never dropped prices of pcs, but still its better to build your own anyways.

 

[Qonfused]

Alienware is so overpriced anyway.

 

[JNightshade]

Just... don't buy one of those. They're so pointlessly expensive.

 

[Admiral Kill]

so does a new OS drop any prices related to pcs, such as parts?

 

[63]

so does a new OS drop any prices related to pcs, such as parts?

It might encourage sales to be sure the hardware stores get a piece of the pre-os launch upgrading frenzy.