My computer's too slow

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1461959]

You can't buy a computer nowadays that's too slow to run Word Processors/Spreadsheets/Web browsers on.

So what would you be able to do on your computer if it was faster that you can't now?

Comments

[andrewducker]

Why do you believe this?

There are no operating systems that boot this fast into a GUI environment - so either every single person writing an OS is incompetent or it's actually something that takes time to do...

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Because it seems a reasonable thing to believe, given the speed of modern computers.

For instance, I won't be surprised if the Google OS running on a netbook designed for it boots in under five seconds. I'll consider Google incompetent if they don't manage that. Too.

[andrewducker]

Why does it seem reasonable? I can't see any evidence for it. I'd want to know of at least one example of something to consider it reasonable for it to exist.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

I bookmarked this, in case of future developments. So...

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5312&tag=nl.e589

"Google also provided an early demonstration of the web operating system, which sports a Chrome browser-like interface that features application tabs instead of web page tab and a seven second bootup time that is expected to be much faster on its release."

Another two seconds off that and they're there, right?

[andrewducker]

For an OS which does exactly one thing (run a full screen browser) and is still a year away from release?

If you pull enough code out of a program you can make it as small as you like, and that's what Google seem to have done here. I do think it's fantastic that they're producing a web-appliance OS, but I won't be switching to it...

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

It's more than just pulling code out. They've ditched the hard-disk too, so no stupid virtual memory slowing everything down.

It looks to be a computer spec that's designed right. ie. for now and the future, not for the 90s. Not that the buyers will know what's right about it - they'll just prefer it because it doesn't waste their time.