> > From: "Peter Fairweather" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/05/22 Tue AM 06:46:02 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT Indulge me? (PS speed tests) > > It makes a nice change to see someone trying to measure real life > computing speed with a package I actually use. > > In the UK the magazine tests involve games I've never heard of. Having > thankfully missed out on versions 1 - 26 of "Doom" or whatever, the > fact that Doom 27 can be run at even higher resolution with quicker > frame rates is of no interest to me. > > Try moving the cursor in a line of text in Word from the beginning to > the end using the arrow key. This process hasn't speeded up for > decades, yet moving the cursor around is something I do all the time.
That speed is settable from control panel. > > How long does the latest version of Word or Excel take to load? How > long does the machine take to boot up? By these tests, computing is > slowing down. Certainly is. I didn't time it but recently used a 486 66MHz/Word 2 combination. Started quicker, saved quicker than an XP/Word 2003 combination. But with a 200mb HDD, 8mb Ram, etc it was severely limited in other ways. > > On a positive note I have noticed the CS3 loads up quicker than CS, so > well done Adobe. About time. Adobe is one of the worst offenders. > > Rant over > > Peter > > > On 22/05/07, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 10:06 AM 22/05/2007, Mark Cassino wrote: > > >Paul wrote: > > > > What are you using to measure the speeds? > > > > > >Wrist watch. :-) > > > > Stop watch on my wrist watch :-) > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
