23 Aug
2010
23 Aug
'10
2:55 p.m.
On 8/23/10 4:49 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Ethan Dicks wrote:
It's very odd to me that Apple's OS X needs at least as much CPU,
RAM, and disk as current Windows, but nobody beats on it for being bloated.
Mind you, I'm typing this at a Mac Pro, and all my systems except
back-end stuff are Macs. I just think it's funny that nobody -
including me - seems to mind the huge resource needs of OS X.
Doc
Then there's the old joke:
How do you accelerate a Macintosh?
Toss it out the window and it'll go 9.8m/s^2.
Ah, the defenestration method:
Most computers can be sped up by
either tossing it out of a window,
or tossing windows out of it.
Microsoft is not the only company whose design policies are predicated
on an assumption of Moore's law. But it is one of the most obvious.