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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (843)	4/22/2002 11:40:41 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25522

He said there are about 450 million personal computers worldwide with microprocessors running at 700 megahertz or below. Those would be ill-equipped to handle the latest Windows XP operating system and Office software from Microsoft (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news), plus security and anti-virus software all at the same time, as most companies require. I can vouch for this. I am running a 550MHz machine with two large (at the time) graphics cards and 2 monitors. I use W98 with Office2002(xp). If I turn on all the features of OfficeXP such as voice recognition, then my system gets fairly slow when I run other applications. I imagine the resource hungry WindowsXP combined with OfficeXP would really be slow on my machine which I bought in 1999... BTW, the newest version of Netscape Navigator (Netscape 6.2.1 ) seems to really slow my system down at times also. Anyone else notice that? Kirk