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Subject:Re: PC Processing Power (was Home Alone) From:"Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher -at- EXPERSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 27 Mar 1997 11:46:24 -0800
At 12:34 PM 3/27/97 MST, Ron Sering CDS wrote:
>Mitch Berg made reference to his P100 home PC. I'm now in the market for a new machine myself, and as usual the older technology is vastly less expensive than top of the line. Is the performance of a Pentium 120 or 133 still adequate for tech writing tasks, such as help or web page development, or CBT applications?
I run P100s both at work and at home. Both machines have 32 MB RAM
and 2 MB VRAM and they do me just fine. Given the choice between
more processing power and more RAM, I'd pick RAM as the better
bang/buck.
Sue Gallagher
sgallagher -at- expersoft -dot- com
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