On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:40:41PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 08:51:22PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
I think they're being more than a little optimistic there aren't they (actually aren't they always?). I have Windows XP running on a 1.2GHz processor with 512MB memory and it runs like a dog - even though it is a very recent installation. Maybe I'm just too used to the performance of my Linux box, but waiting for 10-15 seconds while it gets itself sorted out so I can log on and pausing whilst switching between windows doesn't feel like blistering performance to me.
I dislike Windows XP as much as the next Linux geek but that doesn't sound right. On my desktop Windows XP certainly isn't as snappy as Linux+Gnome but it's not slow, and given that I've been using a 1.2Ghz machine with 512 Megs ram with XP recently and it wasn't bad at all
My sacrificial XP box doesn't see a lot of use (occasionally IE or sniffing USB traffic for the purposes of writing support for Linux), but I find it fairly responsive, even over rdesktop. Dual PII-350 with 512MB.
J.