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To: fingolfen who wrote (129898)	3/14/2001 11:27:56 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

Fin, I really guess it all depends on what you're buying a machine to do. I agree that given the present level of software most users would do fine with a Celeron/Duron. The question is will they be equally happy in 3 years? You have pinpointed the problem with P4. It offers very little value for the present, and in three years, buyers will be able to get something much better. At the same time it devalues PIII, and drags the whole industry down in the process. The big drop in PC sales coincided with the release of P4. Scumbria

To: fingolfen who wrote (129898)	3/14/2001 11:31:39 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

fingolfen, I find it interesting that people on this thread consider Word 2000 to be just a word processor. It happens to be a very powerful program that can do desktop publishing, access databases, deal with HTML, launch a number of different out of process servers etc. It is also programmable with VBA. As I use it many of its features, I often find it sluggish on a dual Celeron 366, especially when my documents have a lot of external links and graphics. Now, I haven't gone to any length to figure out what the bottleneck is, but with 384 MB of memory and a fast 7200 RPM hard disk, the processor must be a big contributor to the sluggishness. But of course, Intel investors, whose use of their computer goes only as far as type letters with 2 fingers will not understand. Joe