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TW> Sounds like a parallel of my Computer Progress. I got in
TW> late but my CPM was the Commodore 128 that I stuck with
TW> until the 386's becasue popular. Then upgraded to a XT
TW> clone. Well into the Pentium era I upgraded to a Cyrix
TW> 486DLC CPU(Really a 386 on Steroids). :-) Right now I am
TW> typing on my AMD 200 Mhz and my "Hot Rod" system out on the
TW> shop bench is a AMD 1 Ghz Realisticly for what I do I see
TW> almost NO difference between the 200 Mhz machine and the 1
TW> Ghz machine. 

When the intentions are to _use_ what is available CPU speed is
less relevant, I agree. When _creating_ files the CPU speed and
amount of installed memory becomes more important. 

Recording of sound to WAV is easy enough on my 450mhz machine
but editing using filters for conversion of the WAV file and
any attempt to create MP3, WMA, or RealAudio file types from
that WAV file are very CPU/memory intensive and are a bit
slower on my 450mhz than on my brother's 800mhz. Not as much as
I had expected them to be but they _are_ slower. 

Editing of graphics and conversions to different sizes is also
very CPU/memory intensive and much slower on my 450mhz than on
my brother's 800mhz machine. 

Creation of MPEG video would be even more so, I would think,
but I haven't gotten around to attempting to create any MPEG
videos yet. I probably will take a shot at it sometime soon but
am not really anxious to get involved in that. My daughter
wants me to snowplow through the basics for her to give her a
headstart doing it on her 2 ghz machines for her work. 

Those new full length cartoons in theatres eventually require
that they lease time on super computers to assemble them into
the finished feature length film. ;-)

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