Author: Chritopher A. Morgan
Date: 09:08:10 04/22/02
The Athlon XP 2100 is available now (1.73 GHz). Tigerdirect.com has a fairly good XP 2100 system without monitor for $1,050. According to Tom’s Hardware site the Athlon XP 2400 (1.918 GHz) should be released this month, April. There is no info on the AMD site re the 2400 that I could find. I know little about hardware, other than what I have picked up over the last 15 years using PCs and looking at performance tests on various sites. I only upgrade every 24-30 months or so, and always get the latest and best available when I do upgrade. My current computer is Athlon 750 bought in December 2000. I plan to go with AMD again, the XP 2100 or XP 2400. For those that know much more than I do, should I wait for the 2400? I don’t mind paying an extra $300-$500 for the 2400, nor waiting a month or two. I know there is a real heat problem with this series of AMD processors, and the 2400 will be even more susceptible to fire than the 2100. I wonder if the performance increase, 190 MHz, is worth it? A related question. The Tigerdirect.com machine comes with MS XP Home edition. I use my computer heavily in work - spreadsheets, tax programs, word processing, Internet, etc. in addition to computer chess, of course. For an additional $100 I can get MS XP Pro edition installed. Should I do so? I’d almost rather stick with WIN 98 so I can still use my DOS programs, but maybe I can partition MS XP so I have a DOS partition? I understand I can’t run DOS programs in MS XP? Thanks for any advice!! Christopher
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