On Tuesday 17 July 2007 08:31, Robert G. Brown wrote: --snip-- > My point was that to a computer user -- even a sophisticated and > somewhat jaded one like me -- the "speed" of a computer has nothing to > do with its clock, the amount of memory it has, the quality of its > network, the vast ocean of its disk. It is measured in very simple > terms. When I type, do characters appear "instantly" or after a lag? > When I move the mouse, does the pointer or view scroll smoothly, or > jerkily and after a lag? When I click an execution box, or run a > program from the command line, does the process execute "now" so that I > can see the new process hop up on the screen, or is there a 2-3 second > delay? When I load a file to work on it, save a file to disk, or do > ANYTHING AT ALL does it happen NOW or does it happen LATER, after an > annoying interruption while the system "thinks"?
I couldn't agree more. As an ISV, I attended the Microsoft's first west coast Enterprise VISTA training. Subsequently, we implemented VISTA on a 2.6 GHz system in our office. We were sure we had done something "wrong" - clicking on just about anything - and you'd wait seconds for an action to take place. We typically would click again - thinking that somehow we had failed to "click" properly - and then (eventually) we'd get two of whatever we requested. We reinstalled - eliminating all the feature "enhancements" we could - and it still ran unacceptably slow. We deleted it - and recommended to our IT end user clients NOT to implement VISTA until Microsoft did a major rework to resolve the outstanding performace issues. Perhaps with quad core systems VISTA will be "snappy" - Ha! I'll believe it when I see it... Thanks, RJB, for your "VISTA rant" - it raises my hackles, too. Regards, Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. Mountain View, CA http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero" _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
