> From: Andrew Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 09:28 +0800 10/6/05, Martin Hill wrote [in relation to UI responsiveness]: >> I'm with you on that one Craig. That's one pet peeve of mine as well. (but >> the Dell on my desk is another matter entirely *blech*) > > Wow, the Dells I use all work really well and are plenty responsive > under Windows XP. Just that there's no Unix underneath so they're a > little bit limited in some ways but then they run software that I > can't run on Mac OS X so it's swings and roundabouts. For now :-)
My Dell is about a year and a half old and was re-ghosted a week ago and yet draws windows and the like onscreen slowly in that horrible cludgy Windows way. My wife has a late model 3GHz Dell with 512MB of RAM on her desk (also re-ghosted a couple of weeks ago) which she tells me even after the clean install suffers distinct pauses to clicks on buttons etc. She tells me most of her client's PCs are worse than hers (responsiveness-wise) and these are lease PCs that would all be less than 3 years old. Mind you all these corporate PCs are configured with Novell scripts, Zenworks and network user directories so that could be causing some of these symptoms - but it does highlight the fact that many PCs are by no means perfect in this area. I think a more major problem with XP is in multi-tasking with lots of windows open (which I think Craig alluded to). Anandtech and others have also highlighted this problem which Mac OS X seems to handle much more gracefully. -Mart -------------------------------------- Martin Hill mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] homepages: http://mart.ozmac.com Mb: 0417-967-969 hm: (08)9314-5242
