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From: "John Francis"
Subject: Re: Full Frame
I think even those days are coming to an end. I used to upgrade our home
PCs every 18 months to two years (staggered, so the older machine could be
as much as four years old by the time it got replaced), but there's no
real
pressure to replace two-year-old hardware nowadays. Our main home machine
is a 2.8GHz P4 (with 1GB of memory), and it is still easily fast enough
for
anything. My (work-supplied) notebook is over two years old (2.4G/512MB),
and still seems more than capable (although, admittedly, it did just get
a disk upgrade, at a price which would pay for a low-end home PC).
I've been considering one more upgrade for a machine which would be used
primarily for image editing (I may be a while before I get back into the
darkroom), and am considering one of the AMD 64 bit dual core processors.
Is this going to net me a performance improvement over my Athlon 3200+, all
else being equal or somewhat better?
Thanks
William Robb
