I agree with this article whole-heartedly and thank the author for it. I have recently begun purchasing (and selling) reconditioned systems from reseller companies on Ebay and they run Acrobat 8 and Office 2007 just fine. What more could be needed? Let the prosperous folk have their overkill and I'll be just fine touting the speed of a Pentium 4 2.8 to my clients. Based on some of the other comments though, I do think a Pentium II and III are super ancient and further precious time shouldn't be wasted on them.
It is great that XP has finally hit it's stride just like the days of Win98b.
Now if I could only change the case on a Dell GX270 (small form factor), I'd be a happier camper!
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I agree with this article whole-heartedly and thank the author for it. I have recently begun purchasing (and selling) reconditioned systems from reseller companies on Ebay and they run Acrobat 8 and Office 2007 just fine. What more could be needed? Let the prosperous folk have their overkill and I'll be just fine touting the speed of a Pentium 4 2.8 to my clients. Based on some of the other comments though, I do think a Pentium II and III are super ancient and further precious time shouldn't be wasted on them. It is great that XP has finally hit it's stride just like the days of Win98b. Now if I could only change the case on a Dell GX270 (small form factor), I'd be a happier camper!