-=> ROBERT SAYRE wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> I was over to my landlady's house the other day
 WC> and there in all it's splendor stood a
 WC> GHz Hewlett Packard with gobs of memory
 WC> a huge hard drive, cable modem and every imaginable
 WC> gadget and gizmo attached.
 WC> So I sit down expecting a wonderous and fast net experience
 WC> and what do I find?
 WC> The blasted computer running Win XP at a GHz  with cable modem
 WC> is three times slower than my 66 Mhz 486 running Windows 3.1
 WC> and a 28,800 dialup!!!
 WC> I got up and walked away from the damn thing being
 WC> too impatient to wait for a web page to load.
 WC> You couldn't give me a copy of XP after seeing that _performance_.
 WC> Why people buy crap like that astounds me.

 RS>  There's obviously something wrong with
 RS> this picture; and, I don't know that XP
 RS> has anything at all to do with it.

Neighbor, BTAF works as a system adminsitrator and 
troubleshooter and he says under a 1.7 GHz preocessor don't
bother with XP.
Landlady's processor was 700 MHz short of that. 
 
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