Comments on: Office Inconsistencies http://www.tienshiao.org/archives/2006/03/30/office-inconsistencies/ The Official Tienshiao Ma Fan Club Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:05:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: David Scott http://www.tienshiao.org/archives/2006/03/30/office-inconsistencies/#comment-158 David Scott Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:23:50 +0000 http://www.tienshiao.org/archives/2006/03/30/office-inconsistencies/#comment-158 I love shit like this! I don't like the problem, but I like finding and seeing things out-of-the-ordinary like this. Unfortunately, I can't have a look at it right now. My windows box only has 128MB of RAM. My brother fried some of his memory a while back and I gave him my 512MB stick because I mostly use my iBook anyway. The winbox takes forever to load or get anything done. I expect this. Earlier this week I was using a classmates computer. She's running an old Sony VAIO that should only have Windows 98 on it. It runs at 700 MHz and has 128MB of RAM. What surprised me is that her computer is relatively useable. It thrashes the hard drive, but a web browser doesn't take too long to open and she can browse the web. My compy with the same amount of RAM is entirely unuseable. It literally takes minutes to load anything and then the program itself runs like crap. The only thing I can imagine it is are the service packs. I keep my winbox clean and up to date. Hers was infected with numerous viruses and spyware. However, she's only running SP1. I dunno what the difference would be. If anything I hope that later service packs would provide performance enhancements (are you laughing?) or at least do their best to retain previous performance. I love shit like this! I don’t like the problem, but I like finding and seeing things out-of-the-ordinary like this.

Unfortunately, I can’t have a look at it right now. My windows box only has 128MB of RAM. My brother fried some of his memory a while back and I gave him my 512MB stick because I mostly use my iBook anyway. The winbox takes forever to load or get anything done. I expect this.

Earlier this week I was using a classmates computer. She’s running an old Sony VAIO that should only have Windows 98 on it. It runs at 700 MHz and has 128MB of RAM. What surprised me is that her computer is relatively useable. It thrashes the hard drive, but a web browser doesn’t take too long to open and she can browse the web. My compy with the same amount of RAM is entirely unuseable. It literally takes minutes to load anything and then the program itself runs like crap.

The only thing I can imagine it is are the service packs. I keep my winbox clean and up to date. Hers was infected with numerous viruses and spyware. However, she’s only running SP1. I dunno what the difference would be. If anything I hope that later service packs would provide performance enhancements (are you laughing?) or at least do their best to retain previous performance.

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