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To: Tony Viola who wrote (86042)7/21/1999 11:27:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls  Respond to of 186894
 
Barry, re processor speed being more important to surfing the net than many think, I saw the same type of thing when canning my 486 at work for a PII-233 a year and a half ago.

I agree, but IMHO the importance is this order: memory (to reduce swapping), then processor, then high-speed HD (for when you do swap and for launching plug-ins and such).

Oh, and ditch that Volksmodem 1200, too.



To: Tony Viola who wrote (86042)7/21/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: Robert Douglas  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
I always buy the fastest processor and am glad to pay extra for it. My reasoning is simple. If it saves me 25 seconds a day for three years that is almost 8 hours of waiting avoided. Would you pay someone $100 to stand in line for you for eight hours? I know I would.



To: Tony Viola who wrote (86042)7/21/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Tonee,
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