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To: Larry Loeb who wrote (52686)	4/10/1998 2:50:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Killer Applications? My friends the "killer applications" these days for the mass are GAMES! I love to play games and so are the rest of the kids. Games are becoming more complex and going toward 3D. That requires alot computational power, much more than spreadsheet and desktop publishing. Who cares about gene splicing, calculating the mass of the universe, or solving the bose-condensation temperature of a many body problem. PEOPLE WANT ENTERTAINMENT! They want to do things that require no thinkings. Why? Because thinking is a high energy state. NATURE including humans want to be in the ground-state. Thus computer for the mass is nothing more than entertainment. Playing games, surfing the net, and talking rubbish on stockchat are all entertainment which many including myself like to do. Thus we need more processing speed and more fun. Maxwell

To: Larry Loeb who wrote (52686)	4/10/1998 9:40:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Larry - Re: "Until a killer app appears that will soak up all of a Pentium's processor power, a major upgrade cycle seems unlikely to occur." Think Productivity. How much more productive can you (the generic you) be if you can work on several items at once, in parallel? That capability is enough to drive people to higher performance PCs - getting more done and/or getting work done FASTER. Think of it this way - if a person could save 15 minutes per day by using a faster PC, that 15 minutes gives rise to (15 x 5 x 52) = 3900 minutes/year = 65 hours. Assuming you earn a burdened $40/hour (salary and benefits and Social Security, etc.) that 65 hours produces a $2,600 YEARLY SAVINGS! In other words, the cost of a new high performance PC can be justified and amortized in just 12 months by improving one's speed of completing existing tasks by a mere 15 minutes per day. Paul