On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 07:14:05PM -0400, Leon Sargent Jr. wrote: : : I am in a bind. Currently I have a G3 450 B&W running Windows 2000 : Professional for my college studies. Windows runs like syrup. I was : thinking of changing out the zif and wondered this? : : Which would be better the G4 550, would there be any benefit to Altivec? : How about a G3 800 for raw data processing at a higher speed. VirtualPC does not benefit from AltiVec. Your only path is to move to a CPU that runs at a higher clock speed. -- Eugene Lee "ya hya chouhada"