Author: Ed Panek
Date: 17:19:42 05/06/02
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On May 06, 2002 at 19:39:17, Slater Wold wrote: >On May 06, 2002 at 19:28:10, Sean Mintz wrote: > >>On May 06, 2002 at 18:59:47, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>>On May 06, 2002 at 17:21:19, Dan Andersson wrote: >>> >>>>While the P4 is faster at a whole slew of things. It cannot speed up your >>>>internet connection. Physical impossibility, for chrissake! That's Intel FUD. >>>>Just my 2 cents. ;) >>> >>>ACTUALLY......... >>> >>>I have a PP 200mhz sitting here. >>> >>>It takes the 200mhz 24 seconds to load www.microsoft.com. >>> >>>It take my 1.73Ghz 3 seconds to load www.microsoft.com. >>> >>>On the same connection, using the same OS. >>> >>>Go figure. >>> >>>>MvH Dan Andersson >> >>Well there's probably other factors affecting the slower computer. There is >>probably a slower hard drive which, for example,would slow down saving pictures >>(possibly significantly). > >I don't believe going from a P4 1.5Ghz to a P4 2.53Ghz will speed up your >internet. Not much anyway. > >But a faster computer DOES speed up everything. Given that the 200 probably has about 16 MBram or so and the P4 has probably well over 200, it will make a difference. IS the webpage very detailed with pictures? Even so, I cant believe that a modern computer say a PIII 900 MHZ with 256 MBRAM and a P4 2.53 with 256 MBRAM would broswe that much differently on most webpages. Ed
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