1) Yes, the average consumer runs Business Winstone.
2) I'll give you multimedia content creation except for that
which required 64-bits.
3) Office Productivity:
a) "The user receives an email in Outlook 2002 that contains a collection of documents in a zip file. The user reviews his email and updates his calendar while VirusScan 7.0 scans the system. The corporate web site is viewed in Internet Explorer 6.0. Finally, Internet Explorer is used to look at samples of the web pages and documents created during the scenario."
The typical notebook has a 2 MB cache 4200 RPM drive. If you are
running a VirusScan, you are pounding away at the disk. All of the advice on upgrading laptops in the area of Virus Scan that I've read indicated that getting a faster disk and a larger cache help more than increasing processor speed.
For this reason, I run my Virus Scans when I'm not otherwise using my system.
b) I think that there is some multithreaded software in there, perhaps Adobe's program. They've had a lot of practice on the Mac with that. But that's unusual for the vast majority of software.
c) "The user opens a database using Access 2002 and runs some queries. A collection of documents are archived using WinZip 8.1. The queries' results are imported into a spreadsheet using Excel 2002 and are used to generate graphical charts."
Again, without them saying which program is multithreaded, the comparison is somewhat useless as you don't know which program is multithreaded and whether or not the average user would use it.
But getting back to my original question: does the average user using Word and Excel see an improvement?
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