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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (5531)	5/25/1998 9:28:00 PM
From: shane forbes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10921

Brian: RE: 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. If you see my previous posts (nowadays etc etc) I was talking about today - mainstream applications today. Out of interest I would like to see how much time people spend away from the internet when they buy one of these $1,000 computers (assuming they also have a modem connection). Ask them to compare the waiting to dowload http files over the net vs. the time it takes to run any mainstream local applications today and then ask them if they want to spend $70 for a faster modem or $200-$400 for a new CPU and possibly motherboad. Again I am not denying that we will need faster processing power as time goes on. But I think bandwidth is bottleneck these days, the price of those CPUs are coming down as people don't need Pentim IIs etc to surf the web and for the intermediate term faster connectivity is the way to go. Dictation software (voice) will be a driver and so will Merced - 64 bit applications I think. Product transitions are good times to buy stocks and one may I guess view INTC as going through a product transition. For better Java perfromance try adding more DRAM. And for downloading pages the major bottleneck is the modem not the CPU. Shane.

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (5531)	5/25/1998 10:19:00 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10921

>>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.<< That's funny, my Pentium 75 is blindingly fast. I suspect the difference is in the cable modem connection I'm using, not the CPU. I don't use voice, so can't comment on that, but my overall performance also took a big jump when sliding DRAM prices let me upgrade from 16 MB to 40. I agree with shane. I don't see $1000 PC users upgrading for at least a year, probably 2, and when they do the processing power they want will still cost under $1000. Katherine

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (5531)	5/26/1998 9:11:00 AM
From: Mason Barge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10921

<< I am currently running on a Pentium 60 and it is horrendously slow with downloading web pages >> You may be assuming the speed is due to CPU when it is some other factor. More important questions to answer: 1) How much RAM? 2) Are you using Win95? 3) What kind of modem? And even if it's a CPU problem, shane's whole point is that you can upgrade fairly reasonably to a motherboard with a 200mhz Cyrix or AMD clone. The additional upgrade cost to a Pentium II 300+ is going to cost a fair amount more, without much corresponding speed increase in common applications. OFF TOPIC - Spend a couple of bucks, if you have them, to get a new CPU/motherboard, Win95 (if you don't have it) and 32mb of DRAM. The speed/multitasking is a phenomenal breakthrough and makes it a lot more fun.