A sly IT staffer always outfitted the boss with the latest and fastest irregardless of the boss's need. The boss would get 1 gigabyte of RAM, the Pentium Extreme and a nice LCD display.
The rest of us would do nice with your other choice.
Bob
Hi everyone. We need to get a new computer for someone in my office (the boss). She mainly uses Word, e-mail and the web... nothing fancy.
We are on a network of about 20 computers of varying age, all Dells, with a new Windows 2000 server.
I seem to remember reading that for most people, processor speed above a certain number doesn't make any difference. So, my question is:
If I downgrade the chip from the "recommended" Intel Pentium

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