John H. wrote:
;-)


I defer to your expertise. But why go with a cheap AMD?

When I returned my Dell with an Intel chip, I purchased a AMD chip,
because all of the speed test run on the software I used showed AMD was
outperforming the equivalent Intel chip.

I could see a substantial increase in speed between the two computers,
but i am not sure how much of that was the CPU and how much was the
computer set up and preinstalled trialware, freeware, spyware and
bloatware installed on the machines. Gateway puts on substantially less
than Dell.