After takin' a swig o' grog, Kelsey Bjarnason belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:38:52 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> How S-L-O-W Will Vista Go?
>>
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>> | The complaints about sluggish performance in Windows Vista keep growing.
>> | While it's unfair to point to beta software apps -- whatever Microsoft
>> | wants to call them -- the warning flags are already evident.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | Asato observed that the demo games of Mahjong and Solitaire included
>> | with the Beta ran "awfully slow," even with the drivers written for
>> | Vista. His system has a 2.8GHz Intel P4 processor, 768MB of memory and
>> | an ATI All-In-Wonder 2006 AGP, which he admits is not the most recent
>> | GPU, "but it's no slouch."
>> `----
>
> 2.8Ghz, 768MB RAM and a reasonable video card... and *solitaire* runs slow?
>
> Yes, well, this bodes wonderfully for the future of 9Ghz quad-processor
> desktops with $700 video cards, don't it?
The hardware vendors are lovin' it, one might guess.
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I had only one nerve left, and -dang- if you didn't git on it!
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