On 01/11/2010 18:20, Oli Glaser wrote:
> On 01/11/2010 17:01, Michael Watterson wrote:
>>     On 01/11/2010 16:22, Oli Glaser wrote:
>>>      I guess I'll just have to keep on buying a new faster PC every 12
>>> months if I want to keep on using a few programs at once (on windows - =
I
>>> may go back and try linux on one of my other latops though)
>> No need. My 1.8GHz P4 Laptop is 8.5 years old and faster than most
>> netbooks. Faster than quite a few laptops, except now it's 32M GEforce 4
>> Graphics is suitable for newer games, though CIV IV does work.
>>
>>     Only high end Gamer machines etc with insane graphics cards get much
>> faster each year, and only really on specialist shader support etc.
>>
>> Win7 is nearly as good as XP SP3, but not quite, hence plenty small
>> netbooks are still XP. Much better than Vista.
>>
>> The last two Ubuntu versions run faster than Win 2000 on the 10 year old
>> PIII laptop 450MHz and 128M RAM. Previous versions slower.
>>
> Maybe it's just Vista itself that's bugging me most then - I find it
> okay (the user account control really annoys me but I live with it), but
> it seems a lot more sluggish than XP, which I really liked and have on
> my workroom PC.
>
> Is it worth upgrading to Win7? From what I hear it seems people are
> genrally positive about it. I'm only interested in speed really, with
> Vista I have all the graphics enhancements turned off as it performs a
> lot better - the graphics card in my main laptop is not that good (sony
> vaio 2 Ghz dual core) so it's the weak link in the machine (no RAM of
> it's own, standard ATI thing)
> I guess if a 1.8 Ghz P4 is working for you then you must be running
> different stuff to me or splitting software over a few machines - I tend
> to try and use one machine for everything and have many apps open at
> once (I have about 8 open now, including MPLAB, Chrome, Thunderbird,
> Foxit, LTSPice, VIsual Studio etc)
> I don't think there is any other option than to run a fast machine if
> you want these capabilites really - I could not do this on my 1.5 (I
> think, or 1.8) Ghz XP laptop, it only manages around 2 or 3 large apps
> before slowing down noticably. Of course it's not just the processor,
> there's the RAM, FSB etc etc. I built a 3GHz P4 machine from scratch
> around 6 yrs ago for use in my recording studio (decent sound processing
> needs similar grunt to high end gaming) I bet would still beat this
> machine, might try it out a some point.
> I general I'm pretty happy with my setup at the moment but it never
> stays that way for too long thanks to speedy advancements and the latest
> fancy offerings from MS and others.. :-)
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Foxit (pdfs) a 1600x1200 screen, sometimes an external 1600x1200 at same=20
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AADE, Spice and Scilab
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