slow...

hi ppl,
i could swear that the general trend of software is getting to the "big and slow", "lag 'n' sag". i just installed office XP the other day and one of the new "improvements" is that it seems to run even slower then office 2k did... i mean comeon... it's a word processor, how much processing power does it need? i remember the good old days of office 95, when word ran happily on 16 megs of ram on my old 486.
the other noticable slow down is Visual Studio.NET Beta2. i got the cds a few days ago, and i ran it on a WinNT sp6 on a K7-800mhz 196mb ram. and it lagged... i never had problems with VS6, why does VS.NET suddently require so much resources? i can't understand what the ppl in microsoft are putting in the programs, but it seems rediculously bulky.
i don't know the system requirements for whistler, buti get the feeling that it is gonna be HUGE. win2k is suppose to run ok on my machine, but again it lags.

the thing that worries me the most is when i think about my programs. will they lag and suffer in performance because whistler is badly written or overly bulkier? and if so is it worth it for the better facilities that whistler will offer in compensation for the performance degrade?

umm... but then again i may just me moaning for no reason again... but sometimes when i jsut want to do something, i.e. word processing and it takes half a year to load the file it kinda gets me a little annoyed.

Zhang Tian Hao

You just gotta get used to it, M$ will always put in more stuff as soon as faster comps are available, usually you can keep up with most stuff but once in a while you need to buy a faster comp. Never had any problems with OfficeXP on my comp even though i have a Athlon 600 with 256M, theres always wordpad for you if you don't need to do fancy stuff, and Office XP does lot more than word processing

Windows 2000 boots in 1 minute to the logon screen and takes up 500 MB of disk space. Windows XP boots in 30 seconds to the logon screen and takes up over a GB of HDD space.

did you call me slow? i'm not slow! i think like a sewer rat, sniffin around, and learnin like the stuff. i looka and learn and get smited by the frauds. It hirts in the soul food. you know what say? Move, go to fred now!!

I have a Tbird 800 with 192MB RAM (well, it was 192MB, now its 448 since wednesday). It was quite zippy even on an old Win2k install which was pretty messed up...maybe you should reformat?

And yeah, XP is damn fast if you have the hardware to back it up.

-C

Office XP != Windows XP

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Originally posted by kedaman
Office XP != Windows XP

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I know that...I was referring to Windows XP being fast.

And Office XP is pretty zippy too.

-C