by Flash Gordon <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Sep 15, 2007 at 08:31 PM
Kevin Williams wrote, On 14/09/07 00:52:
> The Underpants Gnomes tell me that
> Threnody <crredwards@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Kevin Williams wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> Just... wow. A Pentium II/233 with 160 MB of RAM and a 4 GB hard
>>> drive. Running Windows XP. *And* Office 2003. Usefully.
>> I want to know the user's secret. The thing has obviously been dunked
>> into the Fountain of Youth.
>
> Don't use antibiotics, visit the doctor, or go out partying. :-)
>
> I'm convinced it's because there's no antivirus s/w (a serious
> performance drain)
Yep. Especially the home versions of the big-name ones.
> and the user wasn't tempted to install all and
> sundry from the Internet.
That helps a lot as well, I agree.
Also only running one application at a time will help a lot. Well, I
assume so since I find running 3 VMWare sessions each with 512MB RAM and
several native applications somtimes slows down my company notebook a
bit :-)
--
Flash Gordon
