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She brought it over for help today. Turned out to be simple stuff but I sense a trend.

I took the opportunity to run one of my quick XviD encoding benchmarks against some old results:

System/Minutes:seconds
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Desktop AMD A64 754 3000 (@ 2000MHz)/2:23
Desktop AMD XP 2500 (@ 1833MHz)/3:00
Acer 5002 Turion ML-30 (@ 1600MHz)/3:08
Laptop HP ze5170 P4 2GHz (@ 2000MHz)/4:07

Not exactly blazing but enough for Office.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195