On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:31:21AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2004-06-16T15:02:37Z, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is someone actually arguing that 1s were more power than 0s? > > I choose to believe that they were arguing that desktop environments like > KDE and Gnome require more CPU (which I would debate) and more installed > memory (which I wouldn't debate, up to a point).
You chose right ;-) and they do require more cpu, eye candy takes cpu power to draw (either real cpu or graphic card cpu, either way, battery power). It also requires more memory accesses each time you need to redraw parts of the screen to access bitmaps, calculate transparencies, build gradients, ... Maybe if you work full screen with the panels hidden it wouldn't take more cpu power assuming everything was coded properly. > -- > Kirk Strauser > In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
