At 2.6Ghz of raw power, my computer should be doing more for me automatically □ Posted on JAugAuthor Andrew Montalenti Categories Personal, Technology Murphy’s Law: Murphy was an optimist I mean, things aren’t as speedy as perhaps they should be (I/O being the bottleneck), but I haven’t felt my computer “lagging” in years.Īs a side note to that, software needs to get smarter. My CPU never gets cranked unless I’m doing video processing. I never use more than 300MB of RAM unless I’m running VMWare (which I’ll admit, is often nowadays). I mean, I’m on a 2.6Ghz machine with a gig of RAM. In retrospect, these last five years have moved so quickly that it really made us geeks spend a ton of cash. Now that computers keep getting faster and faster and most software is not proportionally taking advantage of it, I find it easier to say, “Okay, I’ll have this computer for a few years.” That’s a good thing. Plus, it’s thin, it’s beautiful, and it’s made in the USA. I can also set reminders, create shopping lists, and play DopeWars. Nope, all it does is keep track of my todo lists, download articles from AvantGo and download maps, directions and listings from Vindigo. No, it doesn’t connect to wireless internet access if hotspots are available. No, it doesn’t play video clips I record with the tiny video camera embedded in the back. No, it doesn’t play seven or eight MP3s in its Flash memory. I mean, I’ve already posted on other sites about how new PDAs don’t impress me because I still use a Palm Vx and it does everything I need in a PDA, and then some. But now I’m starting to reject that whole idea entirely. You know, my philosophy about buying things used to be, never buy high-end because you’ll always have to replace it/upgrade it within a few months.
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