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Technology Stocks : Semi-Equips - Buy when BLOOD is running in the streets! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: shane forbes who wrote (5525)	5/25/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10921

shane, Re:Nowadays, with the intra- and inter- nets and the lack of a major processing need for current software people don't upgrade the CPU or buy a new computer. They buy a faster modem, they upgrade to T1, make the networks more intelligent, use fibre channel etc etc. I don't know about that. I am currently running on a Pentium 60 and it is horrendously slow with downloading web pages. Java- forget about it. A friend of mine recently bought a Pentium 233. He can use his dictation software, but it runs like molasses. The notion that people will not need to upgrade is based on the fact that the net will take some of the computing work away from the CPU. As pipes become bigger however and apps like video conferencing become mainstream, look for large upgrades, since a Pentium 400 probably won't run many of the apss currently in development fast enough. There is always something bigger, better and faster in the pipeline. This is the definition of tech IMO. Brian