John Pfaff wrote:

> I was running a 133 MHz Pentium at work until a few weeks ago.  The
> finally upgraded me to a 233 MHz Pentium II (still no sound card -
> drat).

  Which points out the simple fact as we all knew anyway that unless you
are in CAD design, you *don't* need the latest, whiz-bang 650 MHz
machine for work (including PIC programming) at all.

  Such machines are primarily - for games.  Multimedia, if you like to
call it that; entertainment.  Games in general.  Pretty animations on
the Internet.  DVD movies.  Games.
--
  Cheers,
        Paul B.