--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 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/
