BoatBanter.com - View Single Post

F*O*A*D

On 3/31/14, 7:49 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:01:37 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/31/14, 2:49 PM, wrote:

Andy Grove and Bill Gates summed it up. Bill wrote software to sell
Grove's new hardware. A perfect storm of planned obsolescence.
I am surprised an anti-corporation guy like you falls for it.
The only reason you need more speed is because the bloated software
needs it. A clean XP machine runs as fast as a W/8 machine. It is just
not dragging around an extra gig of software behind it.

If you really want a fast machine, load XP on a machine that was
shipped with W/8 or even 7.
(Like my lap top)

Most "slow" computers are just slowed by the spyware and useless
crapware people get tricked into loading on it.
For the same amount of work you would have to do to move to a new
machine, you could just reload your old one. That is trivial if you
have a good disk image of it when it was clean.

I doubt my MAC OS is as bloated as the typical setup suite on most new
Windoze machines, and I also doubt an obsolete Win XP setup with its old
CPU's, video card, slow drive and limited RAM are going to keep pace.

Keep pace with what? If your use doesn't change significantly, why
should your software change?

I'm not aware of any spyware or crapware Apple includes with the OS.
That's much more of a Windoze phenom, eh?

My iMac has a four core i7 CPU, 24 GB's of RAM, a fast video card and a
SSD for its hard drive. I don't think your warp drive XP is going to
transcode videos via Handbrake as quickly as either my desktop or laptop
on OSx.9+

I don't know about Apple but most of this junk comes from web sites
you go to, not things you select.

I'm not sure XP has the drivers necessary to operate the hardware on a
contemporary i7 Windoze box.

Why would I buy anything apple?

The only "junk" I get from websites, other than the usual cookie, is
stuff I select to get. And that usually is...nothing.

The software I use for some tasks takes advantage of faster processors,
faster GPU's, faster and more memory, and faster hard drives.

Do any DVD encoding?