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In article <160534448wnr@drpc.demon.co.uk>
           doug@drpc.demon.co.uk "Doug Ritchie" writes:

>In article: <418191308wnr@hardings.demon.co.uk>  Simon Harding 
><Simon@hardings.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> 
>> I eam considering buying a pentium early next year.  I'm not going to 
>> upgrade my current machine but get an additional computer.
>> 
>> My question is  - Is it worth buying a P75?  I currently have a 486DX2 
>> 66, so how much faster will a P75 be?
>
>The processor is twice as fast, but you would be going down from 33 meg to 
>25 meg bus speed, so the disk and video will be slower. 

But the data path to memory will be twice as wide.  Pentium floating point
is much better too if you do much of that !


>I would say it's not worth upgrading from a 486 to anything less than a 
>P100, this is the best value at the moment, if you can't afford one yet, 
>just wait.
>
>Doug

Personally I'd agree unless you want to have two people at work at a time.

-- 
John Beardmore