By "numbers" maybe you meant prices?
I was just looking at systems in that range, but not the DDRAM things (egad,
costly).  Looks like a decent one goes for approx. $1500, less the monitor.
Reason I was checking up on this is because I'm standing on the edge about to
leap off into a notebook buy.  Thought just maybe a fast tower PC in the right
range would pull me back.  Apparently not.  With monitor considered into the
deal the cost of a notebook computer with 850MHz CPU is not a whole lot more,
or about five-fourths that of a slightly faster desktop computer.
Obviously there's more to it than the CPU but not much difference.  Wanting
portability is going to sway me to finally get one I'm fairly certain this
time.  I feel it's the last of the current era of computers before things take
another step onward and I'm not going to want to wait out the settling dust
again.
That's my viewpoint anyhow.

"Rev. Bob 'Bob' Crispen" <rev### [at] therectory> wrote in message
news:8FD372465revbob@204.213.191.228...
> Preferably in the neighborhood of 1 GHz?
>
> I'm finally fixin' to sink this boat anchor of a P-133 and I desperately
> want something that'll render POVRay scenes fast, run modelers fast, and
> fill my life with sunshine, rainbows, and little birdies singing.

That last part will probably never happen except when going outside into the
fresh air of springtime  ;-)
Far as speeds go I'll guess that your 133MHz is about 10 to 15 times slower
than a 1GHz, translating to 10 to 15 minute renders being only 1 minute (or
less?), a render taking a day now only taking a couple hours.
Would be nice to experience that kind of change, if true.  I'm no expert.

Bob

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