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I have upgraded my PIII 800Mhz Operating System from Windows 98 to Windows
2000 Professional and have noticed that the data download times are twice as
long.WHY????????????
----- Original Message -----
From: "John M Stec" <stec@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:45 AM
Subject: Pentium 4 slowness?
> I run an IBM NetVista Pentium 4 (1.3GHz) with 640 MB memory, Windows 2000
> pro and v7.2 MetaStock with a build date of 3-20-2001.
>
> I notice that my more complex system tests take TWICE as long to run on
this
> machine as they do on my 450MHz PII as well as my Celeron 600MHz laptop. I
> defrag the drives, etc and notice no slowness on other apps.
>
> Any ideas why??? I have reported this previously to MetaStock support on
the
> phone. They tell me that there have been recent similar reports but they
> thought that it was due to the XP O/S, but then I said that since most XP
> machines are also running P4's they said that the P4 may be the issue and
> they would look into that, but no reply after a month.
>
> Anyone else done speed tests on P4 vs PII or PIII and/or Celerons?
>
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