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To: GVTucker who wrote (121311)	12/8/2000 11:28:49 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

GV, I thought the upgrade phenomena had become more like this: 3 - 4 years ago, company X bought PCs for everybody, maybe 70 - 80% of the highest MHz available at the time, say 166 -233 MHz then. They'd have reasonably good size memory and hard drives AT THE TIME, which would have been 16 - 32 MB and 2-4 GB, respectively. Well, today, that memory and hard drive are sorely lacking and small. With emails alone coming with big attachments of excel spreadsheets and power point presentations, you can fill up a 2 Gig HD in a few months. WRT memory, 128 MB is the minimum recommended for W2K, which corporations are supposed to be going to in force next year. In the old days, you'd ask the IT dep't to get you more memory and bigger HD, or do it yourself and expense it. Today, PCs are so reasonable that IT will say, your PC is way down level for HW, probably also SW, applications (Win95 and Ofc 97, e.g.) here's a new one. It is not worth the trouble to upgrade all that HW and SW, go get a brand new one with a ton of new features all around. I think that's the way it is in major corporations, in the US, anyway. Tony