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To: Dave B who wrote (43002)	5/26/2000 12:46:00 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

And a local-paper (the Miami Herald) article... WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN BUYING A PC. (MS. COMPUTER) Miami Herald (FL), May 13, 2000 p1C Full Text Buying a computer these days is especially tricky because the titans of technology have made huge strides in transforming computer components, including processing power, speed and storage. These gains have turned many mid-range machines, those costing $1,000 to $2,000, into super buys. Imposing choices range from memory chips - should you go for the SDRAM or wait for RDRAM? - to CD players - is it to be DVD or stick with CD-RW? Notice I am not talking about sub-$1,000 machines, where there aren't enough flashy new components to bargain over. For the heftier home desktops, however, some gains are just on the verge of surfacing, while others have already transformed the field. But if you're not careful, you can buy yesterday's technology dressed up like today's. Here are some features to look for: Random access memory or RAM. The quality of RAM is improving. RAM is the active memory that lets your computer juggle open programs and data. It's hardly a sexy subject, but it's important to note that there is movement away from the less expensive synchronous dynamic RAM (or SDRAM) toward the faster Rambus dynamic random access memory (or RDRAM). RDRAM should begin to show up in mid-range machines in coming months. Additionally, don't even consider a machine with less than 128 megabytes of RAM. Don't let anyone tell you 64 MB is sufficient. Modern programs demand higher memory, and so should you. You may even want to consider upgrading to 256 megabytes if you want your computer to stay current for a few years. Gamers, graphic artists, photographers and video makers can't function without enough of the stuff. Internet hardware. Any computer must contain a V.90 modem at 56 kbps for dialing online connections. Anything less is unacceptably slow. But some savvy computer manufacturers are also adding network cards to their machines. This is a wise move. More and more Americans are signing up for fast-access, or so-called broadband, connections to the Internet that require network cards. Network cards also allow two or more computers (desktop to desktop, desktop to laptop, etc.) to link together, sharing files, hardware and Internet connections. [Etc. through a variety of non-memory related components...] Dave