Cheez, and it still takes forever to open apps like Weird, Poorer Point, Photochop Elements, etc.! For me, who does not do a lot of CPU-intensive stuff, it is the long wait to open apps that is so very frustrating. --Steve At 9:29 AM -0400 7/30/03, Joseph B. Gurman wrote: > Anyway, it would be sad if people on this group, of all places, >succumbed to the MegaHertz myth (now the GigaHertz guff, I suppose). >There are too many factors affecting how long it takes a given CPU + >bus + memory + disk + OS combination to perform a certain task to >fall for that.