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Dan,
In 1979 I bought my first home computer, an Atari 800, and paid $1200 (I
think) for it, only to have
the price plummet to around $80 NEW a couple of years later......but did
I learn my lesson ?
HA! <fast forward> In 1989? I switched from the king of vaporware, an
Amiga 1000, to an IBM 386 for
$3000, a "great" deal at the time.....AND I took the word of the saleman
that the 486 was "more power
than anyone needed" only to be humiliated at the hands of proud 486
owners a few months later, and
smugly rejoined with the hypothetical query, "ONLY a 386, and you paid
HOW much ?"
Grrr....Anyway, I KNOW....I OVERPAID for the 300mhz ! But THIS time, I'm
not gonna spend the next
2 years (my usual new-computer interval) eating dirt from any
neighborhood punk that manages to
scratch together the spare change for anything without AGP....
Yea....that's it........the *AGP* is braggable into (at least!) next
.......uh........month ?
Yours in midlife-crisis confusion,
Dick
DanMartinz@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Dick,
> I think it's great you're getting the fastest CPU available. However, the
> Pentium II has got to be the most overpriced CPU on the market. The total
> cost of your system is about $4,500. Of that, the PII-300 is about $1,200.
> Judging from my own system, which is only a Cyrix P150, all of my apps are
> quick, even MetaStock v6. The only reason anyone would need such a fast CPU
> is for CAD, professional drawing apps, programming development, or games.
> The AMD K6-233, which can be purchased for $310, is about the fastest CPU
> the average user will ever need. For this price, the AMD is an amazing deal.
>
> The only thing I don't like about the non-Intel CPUs is the socket 7
> motherboards are missing the new Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP). If it is
> technically possible, I am sure the motherboard manufacturers will add this
> feature next year. It just gets better and better.
>
> >From PC Magazine:
> http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/features/cpu/cpu5.htm
> "AMD and Cyrix will continue ratcheting up the clock speed
> of their processors.
> Both companies plan to move to 0.25 micron-process
> technology by the end of
> this year. Next year, both companies are likely to seek ways
> to add L2 cache
> to their CPUs, bypassing the biggest limitation of the
> Socket 7 pinout. Both
> are also likely to make modifications to their CPUs to
> enhance their lackluster
> MMX and FP performance. (These new chips will be disclosed
> for the first time
> at the Microprocessor Forum in October; for more
> information, see
> www.mdronline.com/mpf.)"
>
> Daniel.
>
> In a message dated 97-09-12 15:07:56 EDT, dickj@xxxxxxxx writes:
>
> << You must have read my mind. <g> I heard Frank singing the praises of NT
> a while back, and since I recently upgraded to a Win95 Dell
> 266/128MegRam/8Megvideo, I've been thinking that a little better control
> of system resources might solve some of my MS6.0 problems.
>
> Believe it or not, 2 WEEKS after I recieved my new box, Dell announced
> the 300mhz version for desktop (not just server) with AGP (accelerated
> graphics port). So I'm sending this new one back, and getting the NEW
> NEW one with NT 4.0 installed.
>
> Is it me ? Am I getting older faster, or are the upgrades coming quicker
> and quicker ?
>
> Dick
> >>
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