Author: Slater Wold
Date: 17:38:17 05/06/02
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On May 06, 2002 at 20:19:42, Ed Panek wrote: >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 Intel claims faster. They don't claim minutes faster. ;) The PP200 has 64MB ram. The 1.73Ghz has 1024MB.
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