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     EIGHTY-SEVEN POINT ZERO EIGHT (87.08%) Idle!!! That comes out to a *sarcastic* whopping 12.92% of the CPU is actually working! A real-life comparison would be using a Ford F-350 mega pickup truck to tow my neighbor's garbage can!! In addition, dig this: my processor is a retail Intel Celeron 366 MHz on a standard, non-spectacular Abit BH6 BX-based motherboard. Not overclocked, not tweaked. I'm on a dial-up connection running my E-Mail program, FrontPage Editor, Netscape Navigator, WinAMP MP3 player, playing a quick game of Solitaire as well as typing up a document on Microsoft Word 2000 Premium edition. Not to mention the stuff in the background, and in the start menu tray such as ICQ and AntiViral Toolkit Pro! Am I boring you enough yet? All of that only uses 13% of my CPU... simple calculations come out to using merely 50 MHz of my 366.

     Now, I realize not many 50MHz systems can run all these smoothly, but certainly does not require a processor 11 times it's power! I think I've made my point...