RE: new computer buying
- From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:27:12 -0400
I find that buying a computer, at least for some people, can be a lot
like buying a car. My current car has 215 horsepower and 220
foot/pounds of torque. It has a tongue weight limit of 500 pounds and a
total weight capacity of 1800 pounds and a displacement of 3.2 liters.
I don't think I knew any of these numbers when I bought it, and I swear
I've met people since then who bought the same car with a bigger engine
because they wanted more horse power, more foot/pounds of torque, etc.
To somebody these numbers are indeed important, but to most of us they
can be confusing at best, and can make us spend more money than we need
to at worst.
Chip
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> [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jean Menzies
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 12:01 PM
> To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: new computer buying
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> Okay. Then I won't sweat about that one. Smile.
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> Jean
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chip Orange" <Corange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 8:38 AM
> Subject: RE: new computer buying
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> > That's fine, but again, unless you're running a huge database
> > application, or otherwise manipulating large amounts of=20
> data (or, unless
> > you don't have enough main memory and windows is forced to=20
> make use of a
> > swap file), you won't notice any difference between 7200=20
> and 4200. It's
> > just another useless number to obsess about.
> >
> > Chip
> >
> > =3D20
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=3D20
> > > [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jean Menzies
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 6:22 PM
> > > To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: new computer buying
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> > > Hi Sean
> > >=3D20
> > > Thanks for that tidbit of information. Now I know how to=3D20
> > > relate the bus speed number. Hard drive speed, I'm=20
> looking at 7200.
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> > > Jean
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Sean M McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 4:04 PM
> > > Subject: Re: new computer buying
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> > > > Wow my 400 mhz computer seems really old, untill about a=3D20
> > > month ago I had
> > > > xp-pro running on a 450. For newness I see your point. If=3D20
> > > you get a fast
> > > > processor get it with a faster hardrive. Get a faster=3D20
> > > processor with a
> > > > faster buss speed. If you see something like 2.0GHZ with=3D20
> > > 500MHZ buss,
> > > > that's ok. You probably don't need to know what the buss=3D20
> > > is, but you
> > > > won't get any increase in performance from a processor=3D20
> > > unless your buss
> > > > speed is 1/4 of your processor speed. This is just going=3D20
> > > off of some
> > > > advise I got from a guy at ibm about 5 years ago, so take=3D20
> > > it for what it's
> > > > worth. I know that a friend of mine runns a computer=20
> with twice the
> > > > processor speed as mine same buss speed and there's little=3D20
> > > difference.
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