[rescue] several second lag...

[Ken Hansen]

Get a PayPal Mac card, and use it for purchases (or a Mac card that can be
used as a Visa - many banks offer these types of cards - called Visa Check
cards, IIRC).

You have no excuse young man!

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "joshua d boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] several second lag...


> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 12:46:41PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > Office is a system killer - you need obscene resources for a "full
install"
> > of Office...
> >
> > On modern PCs, ram is on the order of $100-150/Gig - why would you spend
> > *any* time trying to save the last $10 by running a machine with 64M (or
> > less?) - better to drop your CPU investment by the same $10.
>
> I can not just run out and buy ram for $10 for 64, or $150 for
> gig.  Locally, the cheapest place to buy ram is currently staples (as of
> earlier this week), and they want $30 for 64 (PC100, which hasn't yet
> been established to work in this 66mhz machine, some where picky about
> PC100, like my other old pentium system), $50 for 128, $90 for 256, and
> that's it, nothing larger.  If I want ram at a reasonable price I have to
> wait for a computer show (every 2-3 monthes) or order it online.  For
> ordering it online, I either need a credit card (which I don't have) or to
> buy it on ebay, which is somewhat iffy.
>
> So, it is not that I am trying to save a little money, it is just that
> since her other dimm died, I haven't had an opportunity to buy memory at a
> decent price.  On Sept 1st, there is another computer show near by, so
> maybe she will finally get more ram.
>
> > Who said 40 megs was good for a PC running Win98, Office 97, IE5 and AOL
> > (isn't AOL running Netscape, so that would be *two* browsers active if
she
> > had both AOL and IE5 running at the same time, right?)?
>
> AOL (for windows and Mac at least) does not use netscape at this
> time.  They do use netscape on that appliance thingy that they were
> demoing though.
>
> Well, I remeber when people laughed at me for putting a whopping 24megs of
> ram in a windows 95 box running office 95, and IE 3.  And I fail to see
> any additional functionality here, so why should it need more memory?  She
> doesn't even push her software as hard as I was pushing mine back then.
>
> Anyway, I didn't say it was a PC.  It was a Sun.  But the point is, the
> sun would do the same types of things as the PC, and risc isn't even as
> memory efficient as cisc, so what justifies the giant memory leap?
>
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
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