Re: [Sheflug] Re: Open Office

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> 
> Average speed for a PC these days is 600 to 700MHz. Even that's slow
> for a PC.  The latest Christmas presents for little Johnny will be at
> least 1Ghz in cpu speed.  Lots of bogomips there :)
> 


Well, the fastest machine we have is a dual PIII 500, which is our server. 
There's probably the odd 600MHz lying around, but most are 400MHz or slower. 
Which is what I'm basing this on :) CPU speeds have rocketed in a year and a 
bit thanks to AMD's Athlon to the point where CPU's have now finished playing 
catch-up to software two-fold.

The question is how do you measure average speed: what's currently being 
sold, or what's being used? I'm basing my assumption on the "use" argument. 
If you go to the "for sale" then its probably 600/700Mhz ... which means a 
year down the road 600/700 will be average "in use".

Chris...


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