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To: Gary Ng who wrote (137407)	6/15/2001 11:47:53 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

Gary - .NET does not in itself impose any additional processor or bandwidth requirements. But the shift at the client from a holder of data to an aggregator and displayer of data will likely make machines that have more processor horsepower desirable again. Likewise, the snappy performance that users currently enjoy with local data may require better communication bandwidth for some new apps than many have today. But some pretty decent web services based apps run just fine on 500 MHz laptops. The rendering of big web pages with lots of graphics is already a bandwidth hog, and the ability to construct the display from descriptors rather than taking the content broadcast mode from some web server can substantially reduce the bandwidth needed to display complex content. Amy's description caught the flavor pretty well - the difference is in the way people use systems, and the way they work together and think about their data and context. That will drive new hardware devices because of changes in the way people use those products, not because of increased demand in the current model.