Hello,
In the past week I've been fixing/ reinstalling 4 pc's for people, and damn:
Even though I never appreciated my speed, or even my dads pc speeed, other peoples pc's are terrible.
First my neighbor: Pentium IV 2.00 ghz and 256 mb RAM
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I'm experiencing lag on all fronts, cpu lag, ram shortage etcetc, I needed to remove ads & set up WLAN for it and damn I'm happy I'll never see such a rubbish pc in my own house. Spybot scan took ages and always eated 100% of the cpu, an antivir too ( kaspersky), it just took 100% cpu usage, it didn't even come to hdd lag like I'm used to on fast pc's.
Pentium IV's are Terrible
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Then my good mates:
Pentium D 2.8 ghz, 512 mb ram, xp...
Now the cpu isn't a terrible thing, it at least multitasks unlike the p4 rubbish stuff, but the RAM, DAMN, it has norton installed which hogs the resources like mad, browsing is even slower than on mums Pentium 4 1.5 ghz and 1 gb ram ( and nod32 thank god, not some terrible hog)
And another mates 2 pc's:
pc 1: P4 3.06ghz, 1gb ram, VISTA 32 bit
I've never ever seen vista so slow, it couldn't multi task at all even with HT, every folder took YEARS to open and the ram shortage was BAD. Even a fresh install ( had to reinstall it for him) was much slower than Bloated vista x64 on my own pc...
Then his pc in his own room, a 2.4 ghz p4 with 512 mb ram XP:
Browsing is TERRIBLE, it froze on opening firefox for half a minute, maps.google.com is laggy, it had 100 mb of ram free after bootup, was bloated as hell, even my stripped down pentium 3 600 mhz with 192 mb ram lappy is faster than this pentium 4, so much rubbish and mess is on it...
I can't understand how people are patient enough to work with bloated/ slow/ unclean windows. And why on earth people want vista coz it looks nicer above faster XP on a pc with a p4 3ghz and 1gb of ram is beyond me.
I mean I thought my xp is sometimes slow compared to my reasonably new vista ( although still a bit bloated now), but it's flying compared to the rubbish of other people.
Perhaps I'm too spoiled with upgrading my pc every 2 months, but how people can stand working with 5 year old pc's and using em like it's a normal pc ( eg install high res apps like norton, live messenger, wmp11, ie7, etc instead of using low res counterparts) is beyond me. It's a museum, not a supercomputer ! Use a slow pc: fine keep it fast by using it sensibly ( high res apps begone, don't even think of vista). But if you want to use it like a normal pc at least upgrade it once a year or two, 5 years is way too much for a PC!
A dualcore isn't much, 2gb ram isn't much either, why can't people buy a cheap & nippy upgrade set like an amd x2 3800+ + mobo + 2gb RAM or an E4300+ 2gb + mobo etc is beyond me.
In the past week I've been fixing/ reinstalling 4 pc's for people, and damn:
Even though I never appreciated my speed, or even my dads pc speeed, other peoples pc's are terrible.
First my neighbor: Pentium IV 2.00 ghz and 256 mb RAM
.I'm experiencing lag on all fronts, cpu lag, ram shortage etcetc, I needed to remove ads & set up WLAN for it and damn I'm happy I'll never see such a rubbish pc in my own house. Spybot scan took ages and always eated 100% of the cpu, an antivir too ( kaspersky), it just took 100% cpu usage, it didn't even come to hdd lag like I'm used to on fast pc's.
Pentium IV's are Terrible
!Then my good mates:
Pentium D 2.8 ghz, 512 mb ram, xp...
Now the cpu isn't a terrible thing, it at least multitasks unlike the p4 rubbish stuff, but the RAM, DAMN, it has norton installed which hogs the resources like mad, browsing is even slower than on mums Pentium 4 1.5 ghz and 1 gb ram ( and nod32 thank god, not some terrible hog)
And another mates 2 pc's:
pc 1: P4 3.06ghz, 1gb ram, VISTA 32 bit
I've never ever seen vista so slow, it couldn't multi task at all even with HT, every folder took YEARS to open and the ram shortage was BAD. Even a fresh install ( had to reinstall it for him) was much slower than Bloated vista x64 on my own pc...
Then his pc in his own room, a 2.4 ghz p4 with 512 mb ram XP:
Browsing is TERRIBLE, it froze on opening firefox for half a minute, maps.google.com is laggy, it had 100 mb of ram free after bootup, was bloated as hell, even my stripped down pentium 3 600 mhz with 192 mb ram lappy is faster than this pentium 4, so much rubbish and mess is on it...
I can't understand how people are patient enough to work with bloated/ slow/ unclean windows. And why on earth people want vista coz it looks nicer above faster XP on a pc with a p4 3ghz and 1gb of ram is beyond me.
I mean I thought my xp is sometimes slow compared to my reasonably new vista ( although still a bit bloated now), but it's flying compared to the rubbish of other people
.Perhaps I'm too spoiled with upgrading my pc every 2 months, but how people can stand working with 5 year old pc's and using em like it's a normal pc ( eg install high res apps like norton, live messenger, wmp11, ie7, etc instead of using low res counterparts) is beyond me. It's a museum, not a supercomputer ! Use a slow pc: fine keep it fast by using it sensibly ( high res apps begone, don't even think of vista). But if you want to use it like a normal pc at least upgrade it once a year or two, 5 years is way too much for a PC
!A dualcore isn't much, 2gb ram isn't much either, why can't people buy a cheap & nippy upgrade set like an amd x2 3800+ + mobo + 2gb RAM or an E4300+ 2gb + mobo etc is beyond me.
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(with apologies to mr Sartre)
