-=PCTechTalk=- Re: OT: On Internet Radio........
- From: "don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:21:16 -0400
At work, I tell customers to look for at least 1GB of memory for VistaBasic
and 2GB for Premium. More if they will be doing any intense multimedia work
or other tasks over and above what a "typical" consumer might use a computer
for.
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Southerland" <larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:46 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: OT: On Internet Radio........
> It is just more of the M$ treadmill: M$ develops and releases a new,
> bloated, inadequately-tested OS that has vastly-increased system
> requirements (OS footprint on hard drive and memory requirements). System
> builders (e.g., Gateway, Dell, etc.) release "budget" systems with RAM
> adequate to boot the system, but with insufficient to perform tasks "in
> the
> real world." After loading new apps often required by the upgraded OS,
> endusers then complain that the systems are slow, barely faster than the
> systems that they replaced. In effect, hard drives get bigger and CPUs
> get
> faster, but OSes and apps also grow in size and system requirements almost
> as quickly (if not more-so). The net result? Not so much of an
> improvement. (Admittedly, the manufacturers are partly to blame for
> selling
> inadequately-powered systems for the new version of the OSes, but M$ bears
> part of the blame for bloatware and also vastly understating the "real
> world" requirements of their products (OSes, Office Suites, etc.).)
>
> If you doubt what I'm saying, think about the "footprint" of Dos, Windows
> 3.x, Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2K (1 GB of footprint and 256 Megs of RAM
> (Real
> World: 512 Megs to 1 GB), WinXP (2 GB of footprint and 512 MB of RAM (Real
> World: 1 to 2 GBs of RAM) and Vista (8 to 16 GB of footprint (depending on
> version) and 2 GB of RAM (Real World: 4 GB of RAM).... One might think of
> Window's growth as the "flip side" (or a corollary) of "Moore's Law." ;-)
>
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