Microsoft's Bill Gates uses. Machines that are three years old can't handle that. Designed to demonstrate the educational power of the Internet, the website allows visitors to navigate through a detailed 3-D replica of China's imperial palace. Those are the minimum requirements for viewing the site, according to Intel. With multimedia services and high-quality video likely to start appearing on the Internet in a few years, microprocessor power will become even more important.
People complain about the network, but it's really their hardware.
Unless you live in Singapore, it is really your local phone company's circuits. Ordinary lines can't pump data fast enough for multimedia. Singapore has both. Someone using an ordinary phone connection would get three pages in the same timespan. Companies such as Intel and Microsoft are developing tools that will be every bit a match for broadband video and graphics served up online.