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
applications up). I don't think the resource use is a problem, but if
future versions are more efficient I won't mind.
I would think most computers still in use now have at least 512M, if not
much more, RAM; am I wrong on this?
Robert Derman replies: Unfortunately yes. I am a computer hardware
expert and I build, upgrade and repair computers. I would say that
while most computers sold today have 512 MB or more, as recently as 2
years ago the average was 256 MB and the vast majority of those machines
are still running, and most have not had their memory upgraded. I would
have to say that in the USA the *average* computer has 200 MB of RAM,
and in most of the rest of the world it might average about 128 MB.
While no computers would actually have exactly 200 MB, that is about
what they would average. Even today, most of the "bargain" computers
being sold still only have 256 MB of memory.
