Re: Need another computer

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> I am running on Windows 98 on a five year old computer. Would like to
> upgrade the computer (but not the operating system) and wonder where a
> point of dimini****ng returns will happen.
>
> I can easily get a computer with a 1000 MHZ processor and big hard
> drive, but will it really result in any visable speed in loading up and
> viewing the huge images. As a practible, will a 500 or 700 MHZ work
> just as well? I want to keep all the older plug-ins such as monitor,
> keyboard, mouse, video cards and other things which plug into the main
> board slots.
>
Mine's 4 years old 1.6ghz, it's likely a new one would be about 3ghz. I
have
no doubt the speed improvement of everything (except dialup) would make it
worthwhile. Motherboards often have on board graphics now, I would throw
away my graphics card in favour of that for cad. I have stuck with win98,
but there is a growing amount of software which has dropped sup****t and
some
new hardware requires XP to take advantage of its features.