Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 23:20:18 12/05/99
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On December 05, 1999 at 23:08:43, Ed Panek wrote: > Sometime around April my wife has allowed me to upgrade my PII 266 to the >current top of the line computer. Assuming that i upgrade my Motherboard, Memory >and processor....is there any significant changes expected in the next few >months for faster computers? aside from the usual 2-3 month speed change? > > >What system should I buy? > > >Thnaks in advance for any advice..I have about 1500 to 2000 USD to spend > >Ed Ed, Go to http://www.rebel.nl/bench.htm for a comparison of recent processors compared to your system. Remember that the AMD K3 600 Mhz chip is damned fast and it will be cheaper by 50% this coming April 2000. Of course, by then we will have chips cooking at over 1000 Mhz. There is also the matter of which OS to use. I suppose that Windows 2000 will be bundled with most new machines. You will not be able to run 16bit DOS programs on it--Win2000 will only run 32 and 64bit programs. There is a new processor called "Crusoe" that will come out in early 2000 which will allow you to run programs from the BeOS to Mac to PC on the same machine. You can check this out on Jan 19, 2000 at http:\\www.transmeta.com Get at least 64 to 128Megs of RAM and a nice big hard drive of over 20 Gbyte capacity. Throw in a fast DVD player and a 32 Mbyte Video Card for other more graphic applications. Tim Frohlick
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