>>Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:18:52 -0800 >>Subject: [Ti] x86 vs ppc >>From: coccolithophorid at earthlink.net >>Message-Id: <B84A68FE-109C-11D7-A420-003065F6C60E at earthlink.net> >> >>Daniel Borge wrote: >>Hi guys, Not to be nitpicking here, but there are big differences btw >>winXP pc's too... Mine AMD 1200 have no problem to rip a CD and listen >>to it at the same time (using RealPlayer One which is a great & nice >>looking program too... hehe) and there are absoultely no "hangs" when I >>browse on the net, download doozen files from Kazaa and watch a divx >>film at the same time... Wounder what crap pc's u'r friends have >>since my 1 & 1/2 year old pc can do all this. Daniel > >Kevin wrote: >The crap pc (couldn't agree with you more there) is an HP Pavilion >n5000 1.1 gHz. AMD athlon 4 256 mb ram Win. XP. Try this with the pc, >next time a cd is burning, open up your email program and connect to >the net, then open up your browser and load 4 or 5 pages at once, then >convert 2 or 3 hundred cdda or aiff files to hi-res mp3's, while a >movie transition is rendering, then switch between apps. Let me know >what happens. Will keep you updated on that !! :) - Daniel