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Comment from Aaron Whooley on 2008-03-22

2008-03-22T21:21:44Z

1ghz is more than enough to run a pc with firefox, dont use IE, slows down system, you could even get away with 500 MHz!, Trust me, I did! and many friends agree!, Cathal, That system seems fine, as long as you have a decent graphics card, you should not encounter any problems.

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Comment from Chris on 2007-08-13

2007-08-14T03:06:43Z

Doesn't that get really tedious for your daughter Cathal? I mean you can't even run Microsoft Office 2007 on there without waiting 5 minutes for the program to open half way... Even now, IE7 has raised its system requirements too.. Every new program has and not just CPU and memory, but video card's as well...

I have to say this, but if you want your daughter to be any way, at all optimal in school work, you must get her a faster system...

Neither technology or life waits for any system... If the standard is now Dual-Core, you better upgrade that system to dual core or simply put, have a happy time with your bottleneck system..
Now, even Schools are putting a system requirement on all there students mainly for 1 reason: There students need a wide range of resources that used to be impossible to obtain @ that age of computer systems. Having your daughter stuck on a windows 2000 machine w/ a P3 800MHz processor and probably 128mb of ram w/ on-board video is not going to cut it out there in the real world.....

I bet ya she gets major frame skips trying to run the newest java applet while play Yahoo Chess on on the internet... Those specs are below it's requirement and guess what, most online email services are migrating to java if they havnt already... P3's are way too outdated for the internet or any use as of now.. Stick with the standards.. You wont be sorry and will never have to spend more than $500 every 3-4 years to upgrade/replace your system..

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Comment from Cathal on 2007-08-13

2007-08-13T07:23:19Z

I gave my daughter a Pentium III 800 Mhz with 384MB RAM and XP Pro on it. It works fine online, even down to watching video's on u-tube. She doesn't do online gaming though - I don't let her

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Comment from George Arauz on 2007-08-09

2007-08-09T22:11:17Z

These days not really. With the new technology used on internet programs and etc its more like trying to use an old Atari system rather than an Xbox360

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