You have to remember that I'm using top quality parts - no performance bottlenecks in my baby!

Hard drive throughout was 70% faster than a 2.54 Pentium IV GHz Dell at work. RAM throughput was 90% faster. Computation was much faster, too, as computation is highly dependant on RAM speed. Video performance was more than 300% faster.

And that $1400 machine I was referring to was that same poorer standard Dell.

__________________
I am Mugs, of the Alien clan of Usa, Nordamerica, a Terran, of Sol.

Mine: "Perception isn't reality. It's merely an abstraction thereof, and quite often not a very good one at that."

Heinlein's: "Staying young requires the unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods." "Freedom begins when you tell Ms. Grundy to go fly a kite."