On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:07:34 GMT, "***** charles"
wrote:

If you don't want to be obsoleted for a while the current system to purchase
would be a dual cpu, dual core. hyperthreading, 64 bit system with
virtualization. So far one can get that in x86-64, Itanium, Sparc and
Power.

Just drop the hyperthreading idea - the current top performers, Core 2 Duo
and Athlon64 X2, do not have it.

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Rgds, George Macdonald