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To: combjelly who wrote (13972)	10/15/2000 12:25:03 AM
From: Rob S.	Respond to of 275872

Never said death. The issue is growth. The concern is that PC growth won't be what it has been in the past. And part of the concern is that in the past each new generation of software made it necessary to upgrade a lot of hardware. That just is not the case with Windows 2000 or Windows Millennium. At most, a memory upgrade may be necessary. I find that WIN 2000 runs applications better than WINNT 4 or Windoze 98se or Millennium. Regardless of whether the traditional PC industry is slowing or going to be in the next couple of years, AMD has a huge potential in the PC marketplace - capturing some of the 75% of market share they don't have.

To: combjelly who wrote (13972)	10/15/2000 12:06:24 PM
From: that_crazy_doug	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

<< Realistically speaking, does anyone really need anything faster than 200MHz machine? Sure, some games will soak up those cycles, but if the hardware wasn't there, those games wouldn't have been written to use that much power. >> I know I'm arguing the same point as you, but I'd actually say yes. My machine at work is 400mhz and is antagonizingly slow.

To: combjelly who wrote (13972)	10/15/2000 4:42:24 PM
From: John Prugh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:Realistically speaking, does anyone really need anything faster than 200MHz machine? Realistically speaking...probably not. People probably don't really need computers, either. On the other hand, we have 166 MHZ and 450 MHz computers at work, and the difference is astounding. In once case, I go out to get a cup of coffee whenever I compile a program, in the other, I just count to 30. Likewise, data conversions no longer take so long that I need to find something else to do in the meantime. Even serial communications is faster, and code that used to take several minutes to download, now takes only a minute. Unfortunately, only a few of our machines run at 450 MHz, but we all appreciate the speed. I believe that a 1 GHz machine would be really nice!! Yes, there is a difference.