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Strategies & Market Trends : Cents and Sensibility - Kimberly and Friends' Consortium -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rdmsqito who wrote (24295)	11/7/1999 3:42:00 PM
From: WhatsUpWithThat	Respond to of 108040

I agree on the Celeron; you'll never notice a diff from the full PII/PIII on anything less than CAD/3D/game programmes, programmes that call much more heavily on specialized math and graphics functions, and you'll save hundreds of dollars over the Pentium chipset (and they're both from Intel if that worries you). I also agree on the RAM: don't skimp here. If you intend running multiple realtime charts/tickers, get a BARE minimum of 64meg and I'd go for 128 if I were you. It'll be cheaper to do it as a part of the original purchase, and RAM will really hold you back running things like this. Cellular data is only for those that NEED wireless connectivity enough to put up with the slow speeds. Give it a year or two and things will change dramatically with expanded Ricochet and other services, but be aware it's slow right now. That goes for also Palm and cell phone data access (like Web browsing on your phone??? sheesh! It won't be pretty). WUWT