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Subject: Re: By Christmas simply choose between the P4/3066 and the Athlon XP 3000+

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 05:53:16 10/28/02

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On October 27, 2002 at 13:31:40, Alastair Scott wrote:

>On October 27, 2002 at 10:16:39, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>I don't know but I get sick of seeing the stuff posted on here. It is always the
>>same for years on here. Chip x is the ultimate for running chess programs bla
>>bla bla...then in 3 month the same people are calling it obsolete when the next
>>upgrade hits the street. It never changes....
>
>Particularly when a modern freeware program running on a 166MHz Pentium is quite
>enough to utterly waste me time after time; buying the "best processor for
>chess" would be an exercise in masochism as well as for the contents of my bank
>account ;)
>
>(I have a 1GHz machine with no chess software installed on it apart from scid,
>as I prefer to pit my wits against PalmOS programs. Doubtless one of the usual
>suspects will soon be posting about how the new ARM-based PalmOS machines are
>"best for chess" and another £400 should be poured down Sony's greedy throat :)
>
>Alastair

Yesterday I was looking for some NEWS from Sony newer Palm that could run on the
new OS 5.0. But it didn't take me too long to find a good article for your
prediction to become a reality. Now you don't have to be one of those who will
spend $500 to by the new Toy.

Pichard.



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