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 12:54 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.