Performance shock

[aburda]

aburda Wrote: 
> Hi Tom,

> 

> If I can scrape together enough money I'm going to upgrade my
> laptop to 512 MB of ram but I am an illegal alien living in the Czech
> Republic who has spent most of the last 5 years hitch hiking and being
> a pseudo-vagabond - pseudo entreprenuer so every euro penny counts. 
> BTW I'm on a Toshiba A10 2.2 Celeron laptop.

> About Windows, the boot up time is irrelevant to me.  My main
> concern is application startup time and subsequent responsiveness for a
> normally configured laptop.  You are correct that Photoshop CS takes a
> long time to startup on windows, but for me Photoshop on windows takes
> about the same amount of time to startup as Swriter on linux.  With
> Photoshop, I know I'm running it (in windows) on a system that is way
> underpowered for the task so I can't complain (but still need it). 
> Word processing is something my laptop handles like a charm (i.e. no
> problem under windows) so it is kind of depressing to see OpenOffice on
> linux run at the same performance level as Photoshop does on Windows. 
> As much as I love Ubuntu I wouldn't really feel comfortable
> recommending it to my friends as long as this is the case.  

> I did though last night make some of the OO performance
> modifications (oooprelink, cache) and it seemed to help some.

> With all that aside, I understood everything you posted about
> ways to make performance improvements except for swapiness.  What
> precisely is 'swapiness' and where is it set?

> 

> Thanks

> 

> Aaron

And my video card is built in Intel


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aburda