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To: Charles R who wrote (21819)	12/8/2000 11:28:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Those were the days to invest in the PC segment. Nowadays, the software is so far behind hardware (except for a few niche applications and games) it is not even funny. I was talking to a CFO of a small tech company the otherday and he was saying his MIS guys procure the cheapest PCs available at Dell and try to use existing PCs as long as they are better than 166MHz Pentium. I was useing a 266 Pentium II (with a very old Sun as a second machine), the other person doing my job was using a 300mhz Pentium II with a 150 mhz pentium as his second machine. I now have a 500mhz Pentium III at work but I wouldn't have normally been upgraded yet. There was a reorg and now I do almost the same job at a different location. New PCs that are being ordered are mostly the slowest processors that Dell still sells. (600-800mhz) but with more memory then the base units. The company will "refresh" systems that are slower then 200mhz (soon to be 233 or 266) with a new system without any additional charge but if you system is faster then that then your cost center has to pay for it. I imagine a lot of computers will have to be replaced because many of them are low end and the company is planning to change the standard OS from Windows 95 to Windows 2000. I don't run graficaly intense software at work but the 500mhz is noticeably faster then the 266 machine was. Maybe the extra memory helps but I had 128 megs on the old machine. (The new one was ordered with 128 but it shiped with 256 for some reason). Most of the delay is from running programs across the WAN. You wouldn't think that would help but the 500mhz system was a lot faster then the 200mhz pentinum II that I used briefly before I got the new system. Tim

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