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To: Scumbria who wrote (70488)	1/4/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria - Re: "How much CPU power does it take to post on SI?" If you are running 3 or 4 other applications - more or less concurrently - a 266 MHz Pentium II will get bogged down. Paul

To: Scumbria who wrote (70488)	1/4/1999 6:13:00 PM
From: Matt Kaarlela	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria I am an Intel investor and hope everyone buys the latest and greatest processor BUT I still have one of those early cyrix 486 based machines and it still runs great after 5+ years. Granted it isn't as fast as the current models but with some cheap upgrades: 32 megs ram, a 4.3 hard drive, 1mb graphics card, 8x CD drive, 28.8 modem, it does OK. I passed it down to my kids for school work and such. Of course it doesn't run the latest games of which they constantly remind me. Cyrix made some great 486 processors, some good pentium processors but has lost their ability to complete with the huge R&D costs required to advance. Intel has already won the battle. Cyrix is doing the equivalent of Japan's suicide plane runs. They know they've lost the war but want to hurt Intel as much as possible before they die. People laughed at Intel's Celeron line at first but history will bear out it was the critical move that finished off the competition. Year 2000 computer choices will be 3 tiers: Celeron based computers:$500-$1000, PII:$1000-$2000, and Merced:$2000+ jmho...