I don't want to engender a repeat of the recent discussions about CPU speeds, but in case anyone needs additional ammo, the July issue of Popular Mechanics has an article on the general irrelevance of processor speed on application performance on the PC. It focuses instead on the need for peripheral performance speed, and video card performance, and emphasizes RAM as the #1 arbiter of performance.
A nice read. (Article not in the online PMZone yet.) Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
