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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 03:15:36 GMT
- Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
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- On 9 Mar 1996 19:46:36 GMT, integral@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Noah I
- Rosenberg) wrote:
-
- >I refuse to believe that. I use an 020/14mhz and I am rarely finding myself
- >bothered by it's speed.. I wait more for the Pentium-90s that they have in
- >the computer labs here at school..and the Centris 650's.. lets not even
- >talk about those.. it takes like 5 minutes for photoshop to load, and the
- >machines are so bogged down with virtual memory that sometimes just
- >accessing the menu bar can be a cumbersome task.. and Netscape.. netscape is
- >slow and boggish in it's own right, it's jerky, it loads weird, and it has
- >crashed every time I've used it this semester (that is about 35+ sessions).
-
- 1. Grab more RAM. I'll definately agree Powermacs need a LOT of RAM.
- 2. Netscape shouldn't crash, especially non-betas, but I suggest
- trying the PC version, since I believe that is far, far more solid.
-
- > I just ordered an 030/50mhz with 4 megs of fast ram.. by my
- >calculations I should notice about a 15x increase in speed, or so. I am
- >really gonna like having that puppy. Everything should run smooth as silk.
-
- When you're used to something as slow as an A1200, sure it will.
- However, with my P60-100 machines, I couldn't go back to an
- Amiga-level processor and take that speed hit.
-