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To: wily who wrote (3035)	4/20/1999 4:58:00 PM
From: RJL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Hi Wily, For a nice system, I'll recommend the PII-350 no doubt. Taking into account the price drops of Intel processors recently, the 350 performance wise is my sweet spot. It does have a better performance of a comparable 350Mhz Celeron, not only because of the 512k cache versus 128k on die, but the 350Mhz+ run on the 100Mhz Front side bus and no Celerons do (even the 400Mhz+). Later on in '99 Intel plans to release Celeron's for that purpose, but the PIII bus speed will be jumped to 133Mhz and even 200Mhz later in 2000. That said, the Celeron's are great processors. For standard home systems, the cost involved makes them difficult to pass up. And the cost doesn't make them garbage like the Cyrix MII's. And yes, Windows 98 is without question 'slower' than 95. On a decent system that is well configured from the get-go, you shouldn't notice the difference. On an older model P100-166 with maybe 32Mb of RAM, it will drag on a bit. Don't forget, the more software you install, the worse it gets. A few simple cleaning tools can often speed up the system. Such as a good defrag, scandisk, registry clean. Uninstall the programs you no longer use, and check to see if you have any programs that are automatically starting programs on the Windows load. Most people would be shocked to see all the crap that is being started up. The reason the defrag takes so long in Windows 98 is because it's configured by default to organize the data and application you access most often first and place it at the beginning of the drive. That's an extremely tedious and long option. On the other hand it does speed up performance...especially on slower disks. (11 ms or more) Rich