--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" > > <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > > > That's what some pundits are predicting because many people will > > > > have to buy new Pee Cees to run it, upgraders will pay close to > > > > 300 bucks and many are just tired of the Spyware issues and so > > > > on which will surely follow Vista. It's said to be a fairly > > > > different UI that many hardcore Wintel people may not tolerate. > > > > > > I held out as long as I could before switching from Win2000 to XP, > > and > > > I'll probably hold out as long as I can before switching to Vista. > > > After all, it's only when Microsoft starts shipping a product that > > the > > > real beta testing begins, and it usually takes a couple years to > > weed > > > out the most egregious flaws. Besides, this PC is only 3 years old, > > > and its 2.8GHz P4 is overkill for what I do. A couple years from > > now, > > > everything will be multiple cores up the wazoo and fully capable of > > > running the most bloated of bloatware. > > > > > Exactly. v1.0 is never a good deal. Hey remember 640K max RAM for > > DOS with a 4.77MHz processor speed? > > Actually, I don't. My first PC, purchased in Dec 1992, was a $2400 AST > Power Exec laptop with a 25 MHz 386SL and 4 Megs of RAM, which I > upgraded to 8 Megs with a $140 4 Meg module. Windows 3.11
I remember that generation well, since my friend and I were convinced that a 25 MHz processor was as fast as PCs would ever go! > I remember having to wait for .jpg images to slowly appear from top to > bottom, as the poor little CPU struggled to decompress the image. Back > then, every new computer was a giant leap in performance. But, with > what I use a PC for, I stopped noticing any difference once CPUs hit > 1GHz. Right now, I'm running two different versions of Opera, Firefox, > Thunderbird, PocoMail, and Winamp playing 160kbps streaming audio, and > the Windows Task Manager shows CPU load at 2%. > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
