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To: mauser96 who wrote (43439)	1/2/1998 12:03:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) of 186894

LL, I agree with your premise that microprocessor speed is becoming less important. Intel investors need a breakthrough "must have" ap requiring faster computers. I posted a question here about a month ago about such a must have ap, but I only got general replies. I think people need incentives to upgrade. Something has to bother them about their daily use of their PCs. The only thing that continues to push demand on CPUs are games. I usually upgrade about once a year but it will probably be 18 to 24 months between upgrades now. My P200 is still fast enough to do almost everything I want done. I am in the same boat. My Cyrix P166+ is fine for just about everything I do at home, and my Pentium 166 at work is fine as well. Also, the technologies that are on sale now are all temporary. They will be sweapt by 100 MHz buses, faster SDRAM in about 3 months. 50% plus improvement in memory access combined with faster CPU will give you a far greater boost than just switching to a faster CPU. I would not spend money on another 66 MHz (memory bus speed) computer. Joe

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