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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates

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To: DownSouth who wrote (31814)9/18/2000 10:41:24 AM
From: Eric L  Read Replies (4) of 54805
 
DS,

***OT*** << Quicken and at least one other app running all the time. Who sez we have enough CPU power? >>

I put money into extra RAM and graphics card this time rather than CPU where I went baseline. Running 733 Mhz PIII with 256MB RAM, with a 640 MB disk cache, on its own dedicated logical drive, and the internet cache on another. Partition Magic still an invaluable piece of software.

If we were 6 months out I woulda gone high end P4.

Your fortunate. Still no (good) cable connectivity or xDSL here, so I remain xDSL. Close but no bannana

Like you I run several apps at all times and have a slew of utilities running in the background. Biggest problem is those darned old DOS Heaps (User & GDI resources), and apps that do not give back memory or resources). I'd love to run WIN 2000 and get rid of DOS but I have apps and devices I know would conflict.

Reminds me, I have a coupon to send into Dell for ME, but I have most of the components from MSFT (not the new Media Player as to many other alternatives already on). Running the upgraded MusicMatch Jukebox for audio recording, after trying several. Steep learning curve. All the reviewers said it. They were not kidding. It has one pretty but obtuse user interface ***EOT***

<< Century Man ... needs a new computer, but he does >>

Think so too.

- Eric -
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