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Technology Stocks : Compaq -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Challo Jeregy who wrote (23607)	3/29/1998 8:56:00 PM
From: Challo Jeregy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

To All, RE: Block Trades in CPQ Goldman Sachs bought 100,000sh on fri @26 5/8 quicken.com challo

To: Challo Jeregy who wrote (23607)	3/30/1998 3:02:00 AM
From: Jason Hall	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

I'm not going to tell you what to buy, but I think it might help you out a bit if I told you what experience I've had with the lastest hardware. I'm currently using a cyrix P166+ (homebuilt). I started out with 16megs and that was acceptable for a while until netscape started blowing up. I recently upgraded to 64 megs and all my software flies now. I do a quite a bit of net-surfing and am more than happy with the speed of my computer. The 64 megs helped with photoshop and especially illustrator quite a bit too. Now for my take on the latest hardware. I've used VERY fast pentium II's (can't go into detail without threatening my job) and I honestly can't tell the difference between them and slightly slower CPU's such as the K6. It seems that especially with 95 and 98 you hit a performance ceiling, after which the computer just won't seem any faster. Booting 95/98/NT still takes forever. NT seems to benefit a bit more from extra horsepower. I neglected to mention that I upgraded to NT when I added 64megs to my computer. Until bus speeds and harddrive speed improve, buying the latest and greatest hardware for anything other than games or serious graphics work just doesn't ad up. I wouldn't recommend getting anything running over 200Mhz on a 66Mhz bus, so you might want to wait for the 100 Mhz bus. As far as RAM goes, 64megs runs quite nicely thank you. I've used machines running NT with as much as 204, and the speed increase just wasn't there. DVD-ROM is pretty cheap right about now. www.pricewatch.com has a nice internal hitachi listed for around $140. Sorry for the lengthy post. Hope it helps.

To: Challo Jeregy who wrote (23607)	3/30/1998 12:04:00 PM
From: Trader J	Respond to of 97611

Hi Challo, What to buy is arguable and mainly dependant on how much you have to spend. Personally, I don't care how cheap systems get, I will always be looking get the upper range. Right now $1700-$2000 gets you a great system. As a mid-range, functional, system. I would be looking at minimum specs of PII 266, 64 Mb, 6.4 Gb, 17" Monitor, 4 Mb AGP Video Card. These items to me are fundamental and minimum. A lot of people like many expansion slots but will usually never use all of them, a few is good. DVD is new, and not quite there yet, but is slowly taking off and gaining momentum. You will pay for this technology though, albeit not too much. Just a couple years ago $2000 would be the difference between an entry level PC and a High-end workstation. Now that is down to under $1000. The way I look at it is find how much you want to spend, then find how much you are willing to spend, then spend it. Basically speaking, the more you spend now translates into how quickly you may want to, or need to, upgrade. You will get exactly what you pay for. Good luck. Jeff