> ... so I could use one for answering machine...
> internet work on a second line. A fall-back as it were....Anyways, with a
> Celeron PII I cannot even notice a difference in performance over the hard
> I am
> beginning to wonder if we are past this "CPU hit" as fact in real world
> performance.
>
> David Olds

David,

  You're right in mentioning that "real world performance" is not affected much
with these new CPUs.
  The fact is, under normal conditions there always is some free CPU
time [like working in Word - you'll have a lot of it; also surfing],
so the difference won't be very noticeable, but if you're doing
some really hard CPU work, like play Quake in ultra-hires (some
1024*768*32], your CPU will be 100% busy, and then your Winmodem could
do all sorts of unpleasant things.

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