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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | US Automotive technology and parts change so fast these days aftermarket stores have problems stocking the stupid oil filters.
The same company owns Bird that builds Minn Kota. They bought Techsonic in 2004, and a year later is when the first true innovations began. Since the parent company is who it is, I expect those innovations to keep coming, and I also believe I should expect some Minn Kota-ish events along the way.
Both companies build good product, and both are adding new technology
I think a survey is in order...we'll take a look at as many boats as we can over the next three events...an MWC, the Sturgeon Bay Open, and an AIM (a team Walleye event, a Pro-AM bass event, and a Pro walleye event), and see what brands are locked into RAM mounts on the boats by a basic percentage. What will be really interesting is how many Minn Kota owners run Lowrance.
My three year old Dell XPS wont run the core i7 processor without major overhauling; might as well buy a new unit and toss this one because it won't run allot of the software out there very well, even though its in Intel Dual Core and was a really good one...three years ago. I upgraded it to a dual hard drive array and bumped the RAM up to the max, allowing me to install Vista Home Premium 64 bit so the machine will recognize the full RAM complement for video editing. Now for less money I can buy a Gateway with a 1 tb hard drive, 8 gigs of ram, and a phenom quad core processor for under $700. I won't though...my next machine will be a Mac laptop.
I have an Imac too, and those have improved in technology tremendously since I bought it a couple years back. It's the same now with many electronics as the software and processors, hard drives and memory improves and get's tinier all the time. Lots of the software and support for the OS that came on my last two 'puters is obsolete and soon won't even be supported by Microsoft.
Will this ever slow down? Sure. Someday. |
