Cats & Cadd is meant as a profit
business. At this time I could not make a living from
my current clientele so I don't try to. Most of my
clients are small businesses and government
organizations. I do make house calls but some times
the job requires me bringing the computer to my home
office to do the main event.
In general I can usually find the best
prices for computers and parts and am aware of what
works and what doesn't. A typical speed upgrade will
be a motherboard, processor, fan and memory. Due to
the way prices are constantly falling its hard to
quote a price but I would say a ball park price is
about $300.00. A used machine less the monitor
typically will run about $450.00, A new multimedia
computer on average runs around $700 and about $1000
with a 17" monitor.
If these prices seem low it is not
surprising, since like I said I can usually find rock
bottom prices on systems and with a few minor changes
such as a good motherboard and a Western Digital hard
drive the machine is solid and trustworthy.
My philosophy is to buy today's technology
today for a good price, usually less than $800 and
plan on only keeping it for 5 years. This
approach generally will keep upgrading to the next
level of technology reasonably priced at about $800.00
and insure that you have current technology.
I am very happy for people who can afford to
buy tomorrows technology today, only problem with that
is it will typically cost close to $1500.00 and by the
time they pay it off they wish they had a new
one anyway.

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