On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 at 17:51 GMT, Mr. Stabby (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> Yeah it used to be when you upgraded from a 286 to a 386 or whatever,
> things were wycked fast for a while. But not so much any more. I
> stopped noticing much difference after 1.5 Ghz or so.
I don't bother with measly factors of 2. I upgrade when my machine is
an order of magnitude slower than modern machines. I went from a 486
to a 500MHz box, and am waiting for a 2*2.5GHz or a 5GHz machine.
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