Billy Smith wrote:
> "clifto" <clifto******.com> wrote in message
> news:2oo6h5-899.ln1@remote.clifto.com...
>> Or the owner not being able to afford a 900 terahertz 16-core processor
>> with 100 terabytes of memory.
>>
>
> What makes this interesting to me is that I paid 200 dollars for the desktop
> computer brand new out of the box at Circuit City.

The first computer I ever booted Vista on was a friend's laptop, a quad-core
Intel something near 3 GHz. It took over ten minutes to boot this almost-
brand-new-with-nothing-added computer.

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