Later, you may change your mind, but I promise you won't feel foolish for buying Intel right now. Finally, make sure you get enough RAM memory when you buy your computer. And if you discover you didn't buy enough, you may end up paying someone to install it for you. Get at least 64 megabytes of RAM and, if you can afford it, double that amount. That's another thing that has changed over the past couple of years.
Windows now does a much better job of turning added memory into faster performance.
So that added RAM can help supercharge your machine. Next week, since this topic deserves more discussion, we'll talk about some some specific questions to ask at the computer store. Some of these questions are very low-tech and could end up saving you a lot of grief and money.