Also be aware that when you compare the Intel, the AMD, and the Cyrex chips you must consider more than simply comparing the processor MHZ speeds. You must also look at benchmark comparisons before you can make a fair comparison. The processor speeds among these different manufactures are not a direct comparison. For example a 133MHZ AMD processor is not faster than a 100MHZ pentium. Memory A computer's memory is nothing like a persons memory, so the term can be misleading until you understand what a computers memory is and what it's used for.
Memory is the computers work place, the place where all activity happens.
It's analogous to the desktop of an office worker, the workbench of a carpenter, or the playing field of a sports team. Generally, the more memory you have on your computer, the faster or more efficiently it will perform. If you are running windows 3.x, or Windows 95 you will see your computer perform best with at least 16MB of memory. Today memory is very cheap, so now is a very good time to buy. When you run an application such as a word processor or spreadsheet, the operating system loads as much of the program software from the disk drive into RAM as it can.