Author: Pete Galati
Date: 16:14:38 05/11/01
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On May 11, 2001 at 13:16:24, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Dear CCC, > >Hey guys and gals, I am being slaughtered by Chess Tiger 14 on my PII 333 Mhz >machine with 96 Mb. of RAM. I do not use anti-computer techniques. Why do I >need a faster machine? > >Ans. 1. It saves time. Time is money. > 2. There is more to life than chess. ie Duke Nukem Forever, Unreal...etc. > 3. I need to pay the electric utilities more money? > 4. I can say that I have the biggest, meanest computer on the block. > 5. My life is reflected in my possessions? > >It is getting harder to justify the need for faster machines. The only reason >to buy is to stimulate the economy and enable the development of even faster and >smarter computers. > > >Tim Frohlick Any program with a reasonable strength could beat me on my 90mhz computer, and now that I'm using a 700mhz Celeron with a little more memory, to be honest, they don't seem all that much stronger (maybe I can't tell). The biggest advantage I'm getting is that the newer computer opens large programs, boots, and loads internet pages a lot faster. And the memory is cheaper, SD memory is a lot cheaper the EDO was. But the old machine was built much better. The new one has a tiny power supply, and stuff like the sound card and the video card are built into the motherboard (cheap things you might want to avoid) Pete
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