[Ti] x86 vs ppc

[Daniel Borge]

Hi guys, Not to be nitpicking here, but there are big differences btw 
winXP pc's too... Mine AMD 1200 have no problem to rip a CD and listen 
to it at the same time (using RealPlayer One which is a great & nice 
looking program too... hehe) and there are absoultely no "hangs" when I 
browse on the net, download doozen files from Kazaa and watch a divx 
film at the same time... Wounder what crap pc's u'r friends have :) 
since my 1 & 1/2 year old pc can do all this. Daniel

>> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:08:48 -0800
>> Subject: [Ti] x86 vs. ppc
>> From: coccolithophorid at earthlink.net
>> Message-Id: <2A0FA40C-0EB5-11D7-A420-003065F6C60E at earthlink.net>
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>>  in my experience, using XP
>> straight out of the box on a 1 + gHz machine with 256 MB RAM seems slow
>> when compared to my 500 mHz TiBook. How can that be? When I use a
>> computer I don't think about how many applications I'm limited to
>> opening (I haven't had to since os X) or how much processing the
>> computer is capable of. I usually have 5 or so apps open and a lot of
>> the time they are all doing something, When I use XP I am limited by
>> the bad design, I bog down the computer when I try to use it the way I
>> use my Mac, if iMovie is rendering a transition I go read my web sites,
>> if iTunes is converting 300 AIFF's into 320 kbps mp3's then I go check
>> my email, oh I can see by the progress bar in the dock that iMovie is
>> almost done rendering, back to working on my movie. This way of working
>> on a PC usually freezes Windows XP. Using a computer efficiently on os
>> X is not the same as using a computer efficiently on XP, at least in my
>> experience.
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