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To: Dave B who wrote (38257)	3/16/2000 3:47:00 PM
From: SC	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Please correct me if I am wrong as I am not an expert on the virtues of RDRAM. I remember reading a review on a DELL system where the author stated that the real advantage of RDRAM is better multitasking (e.g. running antivirus scan or disk defragmenter while also working with wordprocessor or spreadsheet). While this is of practically no value to a gamer or someone who concentrates on a single task at a time, it would be of great value to someone who routinely runs multiple, memory intensive, applications concurrently. Tom Pabst's article does not address how well multiple applications run at the same time on RDRAM vs SDRAM. Is better multitasking with RDRAM truly the case or was the article I read an ad for a system with RDRAM presented as an objective review (which often seems to be the case with the computer mags IMHO). Comments? Steve