To: grok who wrote (30139 ) 9/22/1999 1:24:00 PM From: Dave B Read Replies (3) | Respond to
KZ,not talk about the fact that their car can do 35 MPH in a 35 MPH zone. Why? Because everyone's car does 35 MPH in a 35 MPH zone. Instead, they present the features of the car that differentiate their car from other cars. That is what Intel is going to begin doing on Monday -- present benchmarks that differentiate their systems. Benchmarks of word processing software and spreadsheet software will probably show little gain with RDRAM versus SDRAM. And maybe you don't need RDRAM to use MS Word. But you know what? You don't need an Athlon or PIII either. You don't need PC-133 SDRAM -- 66Mhz SDRAM will work just fine. I use a Pentium-200 based system and all the letters appear on the screen exactly when I type them in MS Word. No delay. It works great. I have no complaints about using MS Word on my system. So why bother upgrading to even a system with a faster processor?tremendously . I scan in old family photos at high resolutions (the resulting files are usually about 100M). I print those files out. I run queries against the IDC PC Tracker database on my system which can take 2-3 minutes. I run web queries constantly to see if you've posted any new messages, along with other sites I follow. I don't yet have a DVD-ROM drive, but I have movies, and fully expect to have the drive soon. I expect that soon we'll see on-line sites, as Sony announced, from which I can watch movies on-line as long as I have the necessary bandwidth into the system.
