____/ AZ Nomad on Friday 14 December 2007 04:18 : \____
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:06:27 -0600, Tom Shelton
> <tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>On 2007-12-13, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> ____/ 7 on Thursday 13 December 2007 16:45 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> ____/ Linonut on Thursday 13 December 2007 14:06 : \____
>>>>>
>>>>>> On the whole, though, I'm quite happy with this system and this amount
>>>>>> of RAM.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pass some over. I'm still on 256 MB over here, with KDE 4 alpha at times.
>>>>> Can this thing run Vista, let alone have it installed?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Its becoming dirt cheap - about 60 pounds for 4Gb.
>>>
>>> Yes, but who needs so much memory? Maybe I should say: /what/ needs so much
>>> memory?
>>>
>
>>Video production, photo editing are the two big ones that come to mind.
Very few people do the former. As for the latter, only if you edit gigantic
images or do CG stuff (ray tracing and such) will this be necessary.
> Or in microsoft's case, it is incredibly bloated inefficient code.
> It takes vista a billion bytes just to draw a half dozen objects of
> a desktop.
Watch KDE 4 getting prettier than Vista yet lighter than KDE 3, which is almost
as old as XP (~KDE 2.2).
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