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Plugin Bloat (speeding up OpenOffice?)



On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:25:00AM -0500, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> 8086-8, 384KB, no hard disk: $1200
> 386SX-24, 2MB RAM, 130MB disk: $1200
> 486DX-33, 8MB, 240MB : $1000
> P-150, 32MB, 2GB: $2000 (whoops, bought at the wrong time)
> K6-III-450, 128MB, 10GB: $900
> Celeron 1.7Ghz, 384MB, 30GB: $650
> AMD Athlon XP 2.4GHz, 1GB, 200GB RAID-1: $600

Extrapolating, my next purchase should be:

- a dual 3GHz CPU, 4GB RAM, 1TB RAID-1 for about $550.

All of that is available today, but the price is still too high.
I guess it's not time to buy another computer yet.

-dsr-

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