On 01/11/2010 19:17, Michael Watterson wrote: > > I haved use Eagle, JALedit, MPLAB, MS Office, Thunderbird, Firefox, > Foxit (pdfs) a 1600x1200 screen, sometimes an external 1600x1200 at same > time > AADE, Spice and Scilab Fair enough, probably a few other random and complex factors involved in=20 the differences. One thing pops to mind though - maybe I should have mentioned I have=20 Norton 360 running too, which although good seems to eat a lot of=20 resources. Out of interest, what anti virus are you using? I'm thinking of dedicating a linux machine to firewall duties. Seems=20 like a good idea rather than running Norton on 5 separate machines. I=20 did do this a long time ago (~8 years) but not used Linux since really,=20 anyone any advice on doing this kind of thing? --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .