At 08:58 AM 3/11/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Will the Pentium 266 MMX be okay as far as speed goes?  Will it last me a
>>couple of years?
>It's slooow compared to the  Pentium II 266.

>Toshibas last years (i'm still using the original one i bought for some
tasks)
>But it will run the newer software really sloooowwww.  Office 97 will be
>really slow on it.
>
What makes you say this?  I run Office 97 on a Pentium 133 at work and
don't have speed problems.  I run it on a Pentium 200MMX at home and feel
that it works just as well on both machines.  The latest word from
Microsoft on the speed of Office 2000 is that if you like the way Office 97
runs on your machine, you will have no problem with Office 2000.  It may be
marketing-speak, but an office suite has never been software that requires
a lot of horsepower.

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