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