I have a 400MHz AMD at home and my KDE apps load much faster than 10 seconds.

Alan

At 06:25 PM 10/2/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Applications take about 10 seconds or more to load for me, konqueror, kmail, 
>etc - and of course, StarOffice, a whapping 30-45 seconds.  This must be due 
>to my processor being only an AMD K6-III 400 MHZ.  1 GHZ sounds appetizing 
>right now.  I have about 400MB of RAM, some 256MB of swap space, and a few 
>EIDE hard drives - Maxtor, Western Digital, and Quantom (with varying ns 
>speeds).  I have one question regarding speed - is SCSI any faster than the 
>latest EIDE hard drives?