Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 23:17 -0500, Chad Smith wrote:
How about we say "ok - there's a problem here, we should work on
getting OOo to be less piggy with the system resources"?
I can get OOo to run acceptably on an Athlon 500 with 384M RAM (with
256M it was occasionally a bit slow especially if I had other
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I would think most computers still in use now have at least 512M, if not
much more, RAM; am I wrong on this?
Yes, you are. Very wrong. I'd wager that half the home computers out
there are more than three or four years old - ours certainly are. Unless
driven by a techie, or a gamer, most folks buy a computer and use it
until it dies. We run my system (900MHz, 192M), my wife's (233MHz,
256M), and the firewall (120MHz Repentium, 80M or so, but who cares -
it's a router/firewall, not even X installed). I have one friend who's
got a 4-yr-old m/b, doubt it's got more than 256M, and another friend
who's working at upgrading to the 233Mhz I gave him.
Then, of course, there's the question of how often you think libraries
and schools upgrade their computers - had your property taxes go up, so
that the school district can do an upgrade?
ALL of that, of course, is only in reference to the US. Want to take
bets on Africa, or Central or South America, or eastern Europe or
Russia, or China...?
mark
--
I can't stand watching (the Bush Cabal) roll right over us. It's like
they're asking you to bend over, put your head in the sand, and put a
flag in your ass. - Janeane Garofalo
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