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Re: [users] i386 or PowerPc



On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 08:50:33PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> Weird... seems like hard drive performance is
> very important too....:)

In fact, disk is often more important than the processor!

When building a box, I go for RAM, disk, and processor in that order.
If you don't have enough RAM, performance will blow.  Without enough
storage life becomes boring.  Make that storage large _and_ fast and
life's quite exciting :)

Too many people blow the budget on the processor and then wonder why
the machine isn't as fast as they expected ...

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Micromuse Ltd.                 | than a perfect plan tomorrow.
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