Re: XY and on-line sessions

[chasby@xxxxxxxx (Charles Burke)]

Alerik,

I tend to agree with Rafe.

>If you're looking to save money, my pet theory is that
>you're better off allocating your budget for RAM than a
>faster processor. In other words, if you see a Pentium for
>$2600 versus a similarly-configured 486-66

My wife's new IBM Aptiva (P5/100) was moderately fast (running
Japanese Windows 3.1) when she first got it with 8 megs of RAM, but
when she ran Japanese Word Perfect, it boggggggged dowwwwwwn. Adding
another 8 megs picked it up quite decently.

Then, last month my own 486/66 motherboard died and I replaced it with
another 486/66 (taxes coming, can't afford more now ), and since it
uses the new 70-pin SIMMs, I tried to get by with only 8 megs. Even
though the new board has level two cache, making it faster than my
previous board, OS2 crawled terribly. Again, another 8 megs of RAM
got me up to acceptable speed. And when I boot to Windows, it runs
just about the same speed as my wife's Pentium Aptiva.

So my own recommendation when friends ask is to go ahead and get the
16 megs, because you'll need them. It works for me.

Good luck,
Charles Burke, Tokyo