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Why are computers getting slower (and what we can do about it)?
zridling:
Wow, great responses, and they cover the lot, from booting to services to processes to webware and installed apps. As Lashiec suggested, I'll always settle for the better written, more resource-efficient software if at all possible.
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cranioscopical, correct me if I'm wrong, but other than more multimedia choices (including the ubiquitous DRM), what more are we doing today? Office suites haven't changed much at all except around the edges. Most people still use spreadsheets for a thousand tasks, I was very happy with game play back then, but today, I'd much rather play on a dedicated game console. I've still got porn, and it hasn't changed (except for the faces). No PIM software has still caught up with 1997's Ecco Pro. Yea, I can play a DVD movie, and I appreciate that, but just as soon as I do, the "corporation" wants me to trash my DVD collection and reinvest in Blu-Ray at three times the cost.
Maybe it's me, but I'm not seeing a lot of progress. By now, I was kind of hoping the computer would find a way to deposit money into my checking account daily. :P
cranioscopical:
cranioscopical[/b], correct me if I'm wrong, but other than more multimedia choices (including the ubiquitous DRM), what more are we doing today? Office suites haven't changed much at all except around the edges. Most people still use spreadsheets for a thousand tasks, I was very happy with game play back then, but today, I'd much rather play on a dedicated game console.
-zridling (June 07, 2008, 08:04 PM)
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Well, just a couple of quick examples.
You may or may not not like 'em but the constituent parts of the Adobe suite make stuff from ten years ago look fairly shabby.
I'd submit that office suites *have* improved a lot over the past decade. I use WordPerfect for reasons of my own, and there's no comparison between now and 10 years ago.
Preference for dedicated console or not, have you noticed that games are just a bit better on a PC today than in 1998?
Don't forget, too, that compared to ten years ago we're dragging down performance by trying to protect ourselves from irritation and assault every time we talk to the outside world.
other than more multimedia choices
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Why other than? There are more, they're more demanding, and I for one use them more than I did 10 years ago.
just as soon as I do, the "corporation" wants me to trash my DVD collection and reinvest in Blu-Ray at three times the cost.
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Red herring alert :)
In principle, however, I do share your frustration. Like almost every computer user, I want what I want, I want more of it, and I want it 5 minutes ago.
By now, I was kind of hoping the computer would find a way to deposit money into my checking account daily.
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Well it works fine for me. Should I introduce you to one of my friends in Nigeria?
tomos:
funny
I last year updated to a mid-range dualcore with 2GB ram
Now I can do a lot more than on my 6 yr old machine (god knows what but it was nothing particularly powerful at the time with 512 MB ram!) and have a lot less crashes
BUT things that used to be instantaneous on older machine are taking time on the new machine,
little things like changing folder in the open dialogue box using filebox extender - takes a second before jumping to new folder, when I insert a CD/DVD that seems to sieze up everything for a few seconds ... cant think what else now - will keep an eye out ovew the next few days
- maybe it's just filebox extender having issues :-[ no, just tried it without & the open dialog box does take a second to fill (sometimes more, some less) - it seems to freeze and then suddenly populates the box
Maybe all this actually has nothing to do with the topic... ;D
BTW Zaine - the Ecco lovers are starting to move over to SQLNotes! ;)
cmpm:
Multitasking is what slows me down.
But I have all this going-which isn't much compared to some....
icekin:
Multitasking is what slows me down.
But I have all this going-which isn't much compared to some....
-cmpm (June 08, 2008, 08:54 AM)
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You don't have much in your tray from the looks of it, but looking at firefox, are those all extensions or just shortcuts to bookmarks up in the address bar? If there were many shortcuts, that could explain why its slow. Plus its firefox of course. Though I keep hearing that version 3 will address all those memory leak issues.
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