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Thread ID: 10543	2001-07-29 05:09:00	Athlon 1.4 - MS Office XP	Guest (0)	Press F1

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16212	2001-07-29 05:09:00	I am about to buy a new PC for home office use, mainly accounting and business-related work. I will use MYOB Accounting and MS Office XP Professional - especially Excel, Word, Access, and Outlook. Current PCs fitted with the Athlon 1.4 seem very feature and price competitive with similar PCs with the Pentium 4. Does any one know of any compatibility or conflict issues with this software if installed on an Athlon system?	Guest (0)
16213	2001-07-29 09:57:00	Don't get a pentium 4, they are bloody expensive and nowhere near as fast as they sound. Intel made them to have very high clock rates because people think that the MHz shows how fast a processor is when really it is like comparing cars based on their RPM. Have a look at the hardware sites, eg www.arstechnica.com, or www.tomshardware.com for an ample supply of benchmarks. Also the current P4s have virtually no upgrade future due to reasons that you should be able to find on the above sites, if it doesn't get too technical for you :-). As for hardware support, niether should give you any trouble. Since you say you will be using the system for office stuff you probably wont need such a fast processor as it will spend 98% of its time idle, you would gain more by getting some some ram, eg 256MB or more. My only other comment would be wether you actually need Office XP, I don't think a single _usefull_ feature has been added since Office 97, but alas people continue to upgrade for nothing.	Guest (0)
16214	2001-07-30 23:44:00	true about the 'extra' features in XP being less than usefull in real world terms but as for office97 or off2000 M$ has stopped supplying them, thats why so many follow the upgrade path. Benchmarking on anandtech has shown that to get the same speed from winXP/offXP that you get from Win2k/Off2k you need 500mhz more processing power. No wonder Intel loves M$	Guest (0)
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