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To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (66398)	10/13/1998 4:35:00 PM
From: Dale J.	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

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To: Paul Merriwether who wrote (66398)	10/14/1998 10:18:00 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

P >>>I know this topic of "minimal acceptable PC" has been debated to death on this thread and others so we may just have to agree to disagree. <<< One last word on this subject of "minimal acceptable PC": My sister is a novice computer user and for her if the computer takes more time to boot up than it takes for a Lamborghini Diablo to go from stand still to 200 mph is okay. She is happy as hell that it boots up at all. But for people getting their second, third , or in my case, anywhere from 15 to 20th PC, they (including me) would pay more for a computer that can boot up in 4 to 6 secs as opposed to one that will boot up in 10-15 secs (everything else being the same - memory, cache, virus protection programs, etc). I'm using the boot process only as symbol for faster processing - everything else being equal. A faster cpu would speed up a lot of other things like switching programs - opening up large databases (again, everything else being equal - disk drive, seek time, memory, etc) and so on. I know I am not being very clear about this - but what I am trying to say is that for someone getting his or her first system - 30 or 40 secs may not mean much as long as the system works - but later on a 4 or 5 secs difference may become more important - and people will pay more for such performance differential just as car enthusiasts will pay exhorbitantly for 4 or 5 sec differences in going from zero to 60 mph. But perhaps you are right "we may just have to agree to disagree". It's not anything that I can really explain or prove - it is just a gut reaction that I have. As we get more and more into this stuff - what seems like small differences in performance will become more and more important and people will pay a lot more than what we now think are small differences. I know I'm not making much sense, anyhow, thanks to all for suggestions on how to improve the performance on my sisters computer. Mary