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To: Paul Engel who wrote (43425)	12/30/1997 8:22:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 186894

"Most of the time" is not what matters, though. What matters, for the desktop user, is peak demand. If you EVER get to 100% utilization, for any humanly-measurable length of time, you could benefit from a faster CPU. The other factor that will continue to drive CPU speeds faster are additional functions that we will expect our computers to perform - for example, voice I/O. Current desktop computers are still borderline for voice I/O. As CPUs get faster, software will just get more multimedia-rich, which will easily suck-up the available processing power and bandwidth. :)