My computer's too slow
Sep. 24th, 2009 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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?
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?
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Date: 2009-09-26 12:21 pm (UTC)And your browser - how long does that take to launch?
It's all bloat. Like American cars from the 50s that just had to have yards of tailfins just to keep them on the road. We're currently all driving the equivalent of those in rush-hour traffic.
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Date: 2009-09-26 12:34 pm (UTC)Because it does far more than it used to, back in ye olden days? I takes less than two minutes, despite connecting to wireless internet, my online backup, multiple chat systems, Steam, and starting up about 10 little helper apps I find it handy to have running. Sure, I could cut it down (TinyXP booted in about 45 seconds before I started adding functionality back into it) - but I reboot about once a month. The rest of the time the machine is just suspended - which takes less than five seconds to resume from.
My browser just shut down and restarted in 20 seconds - and that included reloading the 13 tabs I had sitting open.
I'm sure there are things they could do to make it boot faster (Windows 7 boots faster on Julie's machine than Vista does on mine - but then it's a massively more powerful machine) - but so far as I can tell the operating system isn't doing anything excessive on boot up, and stays out of my way 99% of the time when I'm running.
What does the OS do that you wish it wasn't doing?
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Date: 2009-09-26 12:52 pm (UTC)And 20 seconds for your browser might be reasonable considering the 13 tabs open, but if from scratch, how long would it take? There shouldn't be time to think of other things between clinking on an app's icon and it being up and running, and that time's less than a second.
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Date: 2009-09-26 12:54 pm (UTC)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...
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Date: 2009-09-26 01:05 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-09-26 01:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-20 01:38 am (UTC)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?
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Date: 2009-11-20 09:16 am (UTC)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...
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Date: 2009-11-22 09:31 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-09-26 12:54 pm (UTC)