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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles R who wrote (102726)	4/6/2000 9:44:00 PM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575649

Re: Couple of things: - I am not saying we are at the end of MHz ramp. Far from it. All I am saying is that most users don't run applications that useup the MHz in today's processors. - You, my firend, by no stretch of imagination, are a typical user. I say you fall into a niche that is no bigger than 5% of the market today. You are the "power user" that Mossberg says should go for the biggest, baddest system you can get. Cheers, Chuck Chuck, You're wrong. The reason why people upgrade is because they see what others have. Do you know how many people have been to my house and saw a cable modem in action, then the next day called for service? Before, they were saying "who needs anything more than 56k"? This is the same for CPU's. I'm lucky enough to work with BIG BIG BIG webservers and it's crazy how fast they are. At work, when working on a site, I can be the only one on a 32-way system with 4 gigs of main memory on a 100 base-T network. Pages load up in 1/10th of a second. Until everyone has this power, we will continue to see an explosion in the need for better processors. If you went over to a friends house in a few years that was on a 2 Ghz system, would you still say all you need is 500 Mhz? I doubt it. Time is money. My time is valuable. chic BTW- my home sytem is only at 266 Mhz, but I will soon be upgrading to the 700-800 Mhz range. Unless the T-bird only comes in higher speeds. :-)

To: Charles R who wrote (102726)	4/6/2000 9:57:00 PM
From: Mani1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575649

Chuck Re <<I am saying is that most users don't run applications that useup the MHz in today's processors.>> Yes, but don't most plan to use their computer next month also, and the month after that. I personally only buy top of the line, so I won't have to upgrade for 2 years. I paid few hundreds more to get the 650 MHz foil instead of the 550, but I think it was worth it. I do not like upgrading computer, transferring files, backing stuff up, etc. I am with chic in completely disagreeing with that dude's analysis that anything over 500 MHz is a waist of money. 450 MHz K6-2 or Celeron is barely good enough now, in 12 months it will be choking. I don't think this person argument is any different than when people were saying 40 MHz 486 DX2 is fast enough and paying for a Pentuim is a waist of money. Mani