Charles Angelich wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

JP>> Who gives a hoot ? 

RJT> Good point. Most people aren't fully utilizing their
RJT> hardware anyway... 

CA> As I've said before - type, print, type, print. 

CA> There are a few of us who run the system at 100% frequently. Doing
CA> music files, creating MP3s and WMAs, then archiving all of it into
CA> one file all require 100% processor cycles to do.  

CA> Those who do graphics and those who recompile frequently also need
CA> as much 'power' as they can get. 

CA> Granted, a small minority, but we think we are an important
CA> minority. :-) 

No argument from me on that...

I've pushed things to the limit,  but only occasionally.  And since the
response of my K6-200 system gets really sluggish at that point,  I try to
avoid doing so when I can.

But I still think that for most people it doesn't matter.

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