I run Win98se with the unofficial service pack on a celeron 550 that was left out on the street to be picked up by the local hard garbage collection. It had 64 meg ram 8m agp card, 16 bit sound 20 gig hard drive, keyboard, mouse and and the cmos battery was dead so it wouldn't boot. 2 dollars later and an extra 128 meg ram and this machine flies and is rock stable: i emulate using winuae and when running rtg software it is faster than my 060 A4000 (with the windows overhead !!!). On the windows side I run older software eg ClarisWorks 4: boots in under 5 seconds; photoshop 5 LE, Firefox, Zonelabs 5 firewall, little mp3 encoding app i found on a cover disc. Most PC's are slow because the current OS and apps are made to run on next gen HW specs esp memory to get you to upgrade. Live with it, because thats the computing business model that will never change, because it is highly profitable. I wonder how Win98se would run on a 3 ghz machine with 1 gig ram? The other problem is that people buy stuff with "features" they will never use or learn how to use without taking into account what they will do egI wrote my final year high school English essays using Prowrite on an A500 with 2.5 meg ram. All I needed was a word processor that had scalable fonts, spell checker, format tools: why do students now need 3ghz machines to write an essay, the task is the same isn't it.
