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To: Voltaire who wrote (7478)	10/12/2000 12:14:12 AM
From: Boplicity	Respond to of 65232

Both my son's are big gamers totally in the know about the latest game, we even have a home network so they can play against each other. So much of the graphics now are off loaded from the CPU that it's not the CPU that is important for 3D it's the graphic board. We haven't ran into game in a long time that couldn't be played on the current hardware with great visuals. The only leading edge technology that will make big difference in how the PC is used is the increase in bandwidth, and that will only lead to thin clients. The PC will turn into a home sever stuck in the basement like a furnace or attached the homenet setting on top of your TV. The PC as we know it is a dying device and is nearing the end of it's useful life. The power is in the network and servers that will push the information instead of it being compartmentalized in a beige box. There is a new order happening right before your eyes, it's bandwidth and how we deliver information over it, the displaying of it will not take a 1.13 gig CPU. The only reason we have PC's now is the fact we don't have the bandwidth yet to remove the need for a hardrive, they are making it happen though slowly but surely. Greg