RE: new PC specs

Hi Cheri,

> I will be ordering a new PC soon.   What would you suggest I get for
> processor and memory?     Currently I have1mb of memory and  
> 2.00 gigahertz
> Intell Pentium 4.
> 
> The reponse from WDSCi is tolerable, but it would be nice to 
> have it faster
> :-)


I went from a 800Mhz P3 with 768MB RAM to a dual-core Athlon XP with 2GB of
memory for the same reason. The end result is that the LPEX editor in WDSc
still runs poorly. 

I know that conventional wisdom has been to throw more memory at the beast,
but I've yet to see WDSc actually use more than 300MB on my machine, even
though I have much more available. I did post a message a on this list a few
weeks back asking if anyone knows how to tell WDSc that it's ok to use more
memory, but nothing came of that. There were a couple of replies, but none
of the suggestions made any noticeable improvement.

>From what I've seen in my testing, when LPEX does it's little sputter/stall
dance, it's slamming the CPU, not RAM or disk.

On the positive side, everything other than WDSc (java programs included)
absolutely screams on this box.


Regards,


John Taylor