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To: fyodor_ who wrote (52445)	8/24/2001 10:55:16 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 275872

Certainly, you can live without MP, but if the incremental cost is trivial, and it removes some of those annoying, rhythm wrecking pauses that interfere with what you're doing on the PC, why not go for it? I have been running a dual processor Celeron system for about 2 years and even though it is only a 2X450MHz machine it is smoother than my 1066MHz CuMine. The second CPU is nice to have. EP

To: fyodor_ who wrote (52445)	8/24/2001 11:57:32 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Fyo: I run Linux. So does my brother. We can play a game, FTP software from the web through a broadband connection, serve web pages (at least he does), convert CDs to MP3 files, gives taunts over a voice internet connection (great for distractions) and burn CDs (no coasters yet except for power failures) all at once. And this on a single CPU. Linux time slice scheduling does not allow a single task to hog all the resources unlike MS Windows, any flavor. And you can give a process priority so that it will get more slices per time period. The disk cache helps greatly too. Perhaps you should switch away from windows for CD burning and all of those multiple tasks you want to simultaneously do. Pete