Hmmmm...I've had the opposite experience on my 950Mhz desktop...AKA Panama Jack wrote:Well, I have more than one computer. My primary computer is a 3.2ghz Intel system. I have a 400mhz low end desktop with 256 meg of ram. The recommended low end for XP is 300mhz with 128 meg of ram.m3mn0n wrote:Principles aside, what have your actual experiences been like?
Running XP on on the 400mhz system is like wading through a vat of wet concrete. It is slower than snot and it is ALWAYS accessing the swap drive for the littlest thing. It is a 100% pain in the butt to tr
y and do anything on the computer. There is absolutely no way anyone could ever be reasonably productive.
Before I installed XP on the computer I had installed Linux with the KDE desktop and it was blazingly fast in comparison to XP. Plus I could have a number of applications running in the background without the infernally slow disk swapping. BTW, Windows virtual memory system is one of the slowest I have ever seen.
By running XP on my 3.2 gig system it HIDES all of the FLAWS in XP with the extra speed and memory. I would love to switch to another windowed operating system that wasn't such a CPU and RAM hog. But unfortunately for entertainment software I am basically stuck with using Windows. Some of the games I have do include Linux versions but very, very few. If the game manufacturers would start releasing MULTI-SYSTEM DVDs for their games with executables for Windows, Linux and Max then Microsoft would NOT have the stranglehold on entertainment software it currently enjoys.
I would switch in an instant because I would rather have a BLAZING 3.2gig system than mearly a Fast 3.2gig system. Windows XP just holds back the potential of the CPU.
I had XP but when I bought a laptop I needed a real XP install so I dropped XP form my desktop and installed that copy on my laptop...the desktop (950Mhz AMD w/ 256+ RAM) now has Ubuntu...
Some operations are faster...typically shell operations...like moving files, unzipping, etc...but over all...it runs drastically slower than XP did...
I figure all the abstractions Ubuntu (Linux?) has is the reason for the slow down...