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Lead Head:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Probably not if you're running some fuck off dual core 3.2GHz 1GB of RAM box but it does make a difference on my pusy 1.8GHz 256MB machine.
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Im runing a 1.8 A64 with 1GB ram.

my anti-virus only uses about 5-6MB,10MB max ram just sitting there in the background. Im using Avast

mobrien_12:
Reading the Fine Article reveals that in this context "Slow" means "slow to release."  The article has nothing to do with the operation of the computer.

H_TeXMeX_H:
Don't you just hate it when titles don't quite tell what it's about. Especially since most people quit reading after a few incredibly boring and meaningless sentences ... a fine article indeed.

WMD:

--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---Reading the Fine Article reveals that in this context "Slow" means "slow to release."  The article has nothing to do with the operation of the computer.
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Bingo.  I suspected this right away, because - gasp! - Windows isn't that slow at all.  At least not any currently released version; we'll have to see next year.

Pathos:
Windows of the box is not slow.

But once you've got a anti-virus/anti-spyware/firewall/drivers/other software that doesn't come out of the box installed ... it chokes up. especially at booting when its trying to access 40 different places on the hard drive simultaneously. I'm pretty sure some other security updates add bloat here and there.

the original install of win2000 on my laptop used 45mb of memory from a clean boot. DSL uses 30mb. by the time I had the drivers installed and DX8.1 it was at 65mb. I have disabled all the ports and just use DSL really. But 2000 really is nippy.

no linux distro will ever compare to 95 in speed and I'm pretty sure XP boots faster than Vector Linux SOHO.

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