KThunder wrote:
whats really amazing to me is that some people think that is totally acceptable. "of course you need a 1gz cpu and 512 megs of ranm to surf the net"
My point exactly. Has anyone but me noticed we've had no net gain in speed since the inception of personal computers? Sure, we've gone from a couple of MHz in clock cycles to a couple of GHz... But I'm still watching my OS draw my data on the screen a little at a time. I'm still waiting for applications to load. I'm still waiting, and we've had a thousand fold increase in CPU speed! WTF?!
If it weren't for the fact Win98 crashes horribly on this machine, I would not be using Win2k. I'm trying desperately to avoid the "Windows eXPerience." And the most resource hogging OS of all time, Windows Vista, is soon to be unleashed upon the masses... Next time I build a machine, I'll have little choice but to use that, as it'll likely be a 64-bit dual core CPU I use.
Oh, and by the way... Why use Yahoo! messenger, and their JAVA based mail frontend, and the NWS JAVA radars? JAVA is about as platform independant as it gets!
You know, I think the folks over at VMWare have an opportunity to help everyone out. They could come up with a platform independant OS that acts as a emulation layer between whatever hardware it's running on and whatever OS you wish to use. No more "host operating system" like Windows or Linux... A direct hardware banging OS all its own. Sort of like "Amiga Anywhere" for operating systems.
