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The fast lane: digital edge: greater speed and better performance, but who in your company really needs the new Pentium 4 PC?
Entrepreneur, May, 2004 by Mike Hogan
Ever notice how zippy your Web browsing becomes when you replace an older PC with a more powerful one? Faster processors, memory and storage will help those multimedia downloads and budding applications like VoIP and videoconferencing. They could always use a little more bandwidth and processing power.
Then again, who couldn't?
Online spending in the United States will total $100 BILLION this year--a record high.
MAKING THE UPGRADE: Speed aside, upgrading your desktops is a convenient way to add DVD rewritable drives, LCD screens or USB 2.0 and Firewire connections for video cameras, audio or backup devices. HP's Presario SR1000T includes a 9-in-1 media card reader, and Prescott-class Media PCs are promising hubs for wirelessly networking home electronics.
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Newer Windows versions support new wired and wireless networking standards and emerging applications like telephony, biometrics, speech and other interface alternatives. If nothing else, a new, ultra-fast C:/drive will be big enough to hold all the Windows security updates you'll be downloading in the future.
MIKE HOGAN is Entrepreneur's technology editor. Write to him at mhogan@entrepreneur.com.
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