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Subject: Re: 2 CPU's vs. one fast one

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 07:30:27 11/19/00

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On November 19, 2000 at 10:07:17, Randy Schmidt wrote:

>Of course Bob's comments are interesting...
>
>Yesterday I put together (in web browser only) a dream system
>from Dell.  It had two 1-gig P3's and 1024 of RAM...total cost
>around $6500.

My new one is a dual P933 with 768 RAM, close to your dream machine, but it
costed me $3000.

>Now according to what I am reading, it would be
>better to spend around $3500 and wait until the 1.6 gigs are
>released?  I can save $3000, wait 3 months and I have about
>the same speed of machine?

Probably you would have to wait for about half a year to get comparable speed,
and then you can always wait for half more year, and then...

Enrique



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