The senior designer gets a spankin’ new dual-processor G5 Macintosh. Which means the junior designer gets her old G4 Quicksilver. The receptionist gets his old eMac. And takes the old Bondi blue iMac home for the kids. This office has just experienced a…
cascading upgrade, n. – A process whereby the purchase of a powerful new computer for a senior staff or family member triggers a chain reaction whereby they pass their old computer on to someone more junior than them, who passes their old computer to someone more junior, and so on until someone has to find a home for a completely obsolete computer. Everyone in the chain thus gets an incremental upgrade in computing power.
e.g. – “Paul got a sweet new PowerBook, but I got screwed out of the cascading upgrade, and Tanya got his old one.”
