[CUBE] Sonnet 1.4 GHz upgrades

Joseph B. Gurman gurman at gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Jul 30 07:03:24 PDT 2003


     All I can say is that, with the exception of Adobe apps, that 
appear to want to load a zillion things, slowly, every time they 
launch, apps launch in a hurry on dual G4 1.0 GHz's and up.

At 9:33 AM -0400 7/30/03, Steve Goldstein wrote:
>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.


-- 
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
                                                             - Douglas 
Adams, 1952 - 2001

Joseph B. Gurman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar Physics
Branch, Greenbelt MD 20771 USA



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