Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Damned Windows Bloat Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:17:59 -0400 (EDT) Organization: news.solani.org Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: solani.org 1473873479 3031 eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLPAkwOaUF/xJ2Rw+NmwgGuFy1XmjjSNKGksY4juia7woHLcL3cgFHdf0JphBm (14 Sep 2016 17:17:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:17:59 +0000 (UTC) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwNyMkBwDAIA7CVOA2M0zpl/xFSPZUOBSuQiNzcp6jwQQ1WaIQ79UxLG0/2/73MwitfqO1eCcwQjQ== X-User-ID: eJwFwQEBwCAMAzBLG3QtyOG88y+BpCaTV2AR1dVBMQ6V8trDv/fuM2FHLSAGhCWF84T13XwEwBBN X-Newsreader: PiaoHong.Usenet.Client.VIP:1.65 Cancel-Lock: sha1:SZymXHN/R1EdWEOlVAdBRwNaUwg= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:12006 polygonum Wrote in message: >> > Many, many PCs these days come with 8 GB of RAM - and for good reason. > It makes a difference. The PCs we supply now are all 8GB (or, > occasionally for special reasons, more). My first laptop was a pentium III in 2000, and it had 64mb of RAM I upgraded to 128MB. I can say with full confidence that my usage of that machine was no different than my usage of my current machine (a 2008 desktop with 2gb RAM) including editing photos, listening to mp3s, building web pages, office suite use, and web surfing. With the single exception of video editing (which i dont do) my new machine offers no benefits the old one was incapable of. The RAM increase is absorbed by more complicated web pagea, the increased overhead of managing utf8 and nicer fonts. I'm convinced the rest of it has gone to graphical niceties, transparency, visual effects, and bloat. If i could resurrect that old Pentium III i would be able to use it for nearly all of my needs other than surfing the now much more complicated web. The idea I now "need" 8mb is somewhat galling.