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To: jeff_boyd___ who wrote (120988)	12/6/2000 9:27:24 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Jeff,<<<. In Corporate PC space, with the exception of workstations, there is no additional need for speed. >>> In the Corporate PC space, the PC has taken over the role of the workstation. This is a different definition of a standalone workstation that engineers use to do engineering work. The workstation I'm referring to are those terminals that are tied to a network and interact with servers (NT, Unix, or S390 type)and the work they do relates to transaction processing. Many of these applications require that each workstation process 20 or 30 transactions an hour. Many of these transactions have to go through edit or validation processing wherein each time the enter key is pressed and hundreds of instructions are performed using many I/O functions the computer must return control to the client computer. Response time in these transactions are critical. They used to be measured in seconds, but now for companies to be competitive and have better productivity, they are looking at response time in fractions of a second. True many of the activity occur on the network and bandwidth has a lot do do with it, but to get real good response time all parts of the system have to process as fast as possible including the client computer or terminal. If you don't have a clue about this part of Corporate activity, then your understanding of the computer world is severely lacking and you should not make any judgements based on your current level of understanding. You would be just as well off if you just flipped a coin. Mary

To: jeff_boyd___ who wrote (120988)	12/7/2000 11:55:54 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Basically, I don't see the need for the Pentium IV or for that matter a 1.5Ghz Palomino. Why should people continue to upgrade their PC's? This sentiment crops up periodically, and there is certainly some truth to it. But here are two considerations for you. 1. The manufacturing cost difference between an 800MHZ chip and a 1.2GHZ chip is nearly zero. (right now, P4 is a different story) I'm pretty sure a substantial number of buyers will be willing to pay a couple hundred bucks extra for a computer with the 1.2GHZ part. 2. I'm assuming that you drive a used Hyundai or something similar since you don't "need" anything more expensive to get from point A to point B. Regards, Dan