Wired quotes consultant John McCormick as saying that the newly announced 1.5 gigahertz Pentium 4 won’t have much impact on ordinary office workers. “People who use word processing applications and spread sheets won’t see much of a difference in performance,” McCormick told Wired.
Give me a break. Has McCormick used this bloatware recently? At work I’m running on a 500 MHZ Pentium III with 128 mb memory, and both WordPerfect and Microsoft Office consume resources like crazy. Not only will I need a 1.5 GHZ, but I also need a SCSI hard drive given the way these programs are constantly going to the C: drive (this even with no other programs open).
Some people I know like to use the latest 3-d games to test how fast a computer system really is. On the other hand I think MS Office 2000 is the real test of how much a system can handle (I’m surprised Nvidia and 3DFX never decided to market Office Accelerator Cards!)