A computer mag, can't recall which one, one of the British
 imports, did a speed test on some current models. The tests
 covered a lot of areas, and what was tested was the difference
 between various levels of CPU, amount of Ram and hard drive
 differences in speed tests.

 They tested four levels of each, from bottom of the current
 lines to high level a higher end computer user might have.

 From the bottom of the line to the next up CPU the jump was
 pretty good, but from there up it was not, IMO, worth spending
 much money on.

 Ram was checked at 2 gigs, 4 gigs, 6 gigs, and 8 gigs. Now being
 the sort of person who thinks 2 gigs is a lot that's something.
 Again, the jump from 2 gigs to 4 gigs was big, but the only
 place more ram was a big difference was in heavy duty
 multitasking. Again, not worth much more money by my standards.

 The same held true with the hard disks, bottom to number two,
 big jump, above that, not that much... except... when they
 changed from a hard drive to a solid state drive it blew all the
 rest away. All the other variables became minor by comparison.
 Even the ram increase didn't matter much.

 Ok, I didn't know SSDs were *THAT* good. I guess I will have to
 look into them.


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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