You are the lead systems analyst on a new software project for your company. You have been given

the responsibility to choose the hardware platform for the project. Your supervisor, a business

major, has come to you with some suggestions. He states, "I think this new $3\mathrm{.}4GHz$ CPU in

those XYZ brand computers is probably the best. We don't really want to use those older $1\mathrm{.}2GHz$

ABC brand machines when we can get one so much faster now.

$10$ points

$"$ What is your response? And why?