Invisible wrote:
> Most of the PCs round here, it seems, are in fact limited by RAM 
> capacity, HD access speed, and most significantly network latency. 

My boss bought a quad-core Mac with SSDs. A few weeks later I asked how it 
worked out.  He said "I never wait for anything." :-)

With several SATA drives, it's nice to be able to copy at 80MBps between two 
different pairs of drives at once.  Way nicer than lame-ass IDE.

And my net here is nicely peppy. At 12Mbps, I'm almost always maxing out 
someone else's connection before my own. I can suck down an entire CD worth 
of data in about 15 minutes, faster than driving into work to pick it up.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Understanding the structure of the universe
    via religion is like understanding the
     structure of computers via Tron.

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