The processor speed is actually a measurement of the electronic pulses flowing through the integrated circuits of the central processing unit (CPU). Computing circuitry functions because these pulses have different properties that distinguish whether a "bit" is "on" (a value of 1) or "off" (a value of 0). All these bytes streaming through the circuitry do take some physical time and the more of these electronic vibrations that can pass through the circuits the faster the CPU can make calculations or accept system requests. The previous answer of 2.6 GHz means that about 2.6 billion of these vibrations are passing through the circuits; each carrying its' specific code and hopefully making sense to the system. Certainly, a 2.6 GHz CPU will process more instructions that a 1.5 GHz CPU much like the Mississippi River can carry more shipping freight than can the Wisconsin River -- simply because there is more volume. ---*---*---*---*---*--- Bill Gallik E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish." - Robert Jackson
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