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[News] [Rival] Resource Hogs and Faulty Computers from Proprietary Vendors

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Resource Hogs and Faulty Computers from Proprietary Vendors
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 04:34:31 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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UnlockMe! Low 'Virtual Memory' warning on Windows Vista

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| If you receive an error messages that warns you about low virtual memory, it 
| means that you have so many programs running at the same time and your 
| temporary space in your hardisk called paging file is not enough.   
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http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/2007/10/unlockme-low-memory-warning-on-windows.html

Apple probes iMac lockups

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| Apple said it is investigating lockup problems with the newest line of iMac 
| desktop computers after customers flooded the company's support forums with 
| complaints last week.   
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=71306185&rid=-50


Related:

Seagate: Vista OS requires 250GB to 1TB of storage

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| Seagate exec: To fully leverage Vista, you need 250GB to 1TB of storage
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9038438


Vista PCs: Suffering from Memory Loss?

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| A reader wants to know why his new computer--which is supposed to have
| 4GB of memory--keeps telling him it really has only 3GB
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc20070326_121616.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_technology


Testing Vista's different memory configurations 

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| You simply cannot play games on Vista with 512MB o memory, at least not the 
| games wen tested. You will sometimes get playable scores but even then the 
| experience and the load time will be ridiculous.
| 
| Anything more than 512MB will help you a lot, with 2x1GB being the best 
| price performance buy.
| 
| 4x1GB is the best choice for best raw performance. It is hard to prove it
| ^^^^^ 
| in every test, but if you have 2x1GB and you load as much in memory, the 
|                                ^^^^^
| system will become endessly slow. 
|                             ^^^^     
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36148


Vista Runs Smooth Only on 2G Memory

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| However, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins suggested otherwise on Thursday, 26 Oct at 
| a speech at Shanghai's Jiaotong University. "I think they tell you maybe 1 
| gig of memory is OK. No, two gigs of memory would be great."
| 
| This echoes with my own experience with Vista RC2. With only 1G of
| RAM, there are many disk activities indicating heavy disk swap, a
| symptom of lack of memory in the system.
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http://www.itechnote.com/2006/10/27/vista-runs-smooth-only-on-2g-memory/


Vista System Memory Concerns

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| Vista: Facing a Slow Adoption. In the beginning, early adopters and
| gamers who are looking to ready themselves for the DirectX 10 upgrade
| will be best suited for those ready to make an investment in the
| unknown.
| 
| Considering how many software and game titles will likely need to
| be run in "compatibility mode" until patches are released across
| the board, I would suggest really looking at what Vista's advantages
| are before taking the plunge.
| 
| No matter how much we may wish to see the path Vista is about to
| embark on, the fact remains that because of its hardware requirements,
| Vista adoption may turn out to be rather slow.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2395&Itemid=449


Microsoft Windows Is A Greedy Memory Hog, The Cure Is To Feed It RAM

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| For Windows 2000, XP, 512MB is the minimum and 1GB or more is recommended.
| For Windows 98 any flavor, 256MB is the minimum and 1GB is recommended. If 
| you are an avid PC gamer or video editor, 1GB is the minimum 
| recommendation. Other operating systems such as Linux or Mac are similar. 
| Simply put: more is better.
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http://bytepowered.org/articles/Article/Microsoft-Windows-Is-A-Greedy-Memory-Hog--The-Cure-Is-To-Feed-It-RAM/539
http://tinyurl.com/yn9ztx


New iMacs plagued by interface freezing issues

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| A growing number of users have reported that Apple's aluminum all-in-one 
| computers suffer from a flaw that locks up the interface, rendering the 
| system all but inert until a reboot.  
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/03/new_imacs_plagued_by_interface_freezing_issues.html


Apple Arrogance Unleashed!

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| But the only problem with Apple is that it has no gratitude. Or humility. Or 
| generosity. Or manners. 
| 
| I'm a big fan of Apple products. But there's no escaping the fact that Apple 
| has always been, well, arrogant. Which was fine -- their superiority complex 
| has always been both partially deserved and one of the company's motivations 
| to strive for better things. But in the past few months, the company seems to 
| have crossed some kind of invisible line, now brazenly pissing off not just 
| competitors, but its most devoted fans, closest partners and industry 
| supporters.      
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3703216

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