Technological Progress
Posted: Fri 4 August, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Domestic, Geeky, Getting Organised, Work-related |2 Comments »I was saying to Herself this morning, I’ve discovered a fairly major problem with the new PC.
As it is, it runs a Pentium D 3Ghz Dual Core processor, which basically means it’s faster than shit off a warm shovel. Everything is fast on the damn thing, particularly after upgrading from a distinctly old 1Ghz Athlon chip, (in fairness, itself bloody fast at the time I bought the thing, back in ’99/2000) and having 3Gb of memory doesn’t half help on that score too.
Thing is, last night I was working on the laptop. Which runs a 600Mhz Crusoe processor, and has 512Mb of memory. So in comparison to the PC, it’s bloody glacial, and as such incredibly annoying – particularly when I have to wait while it sods about with Gmail and a couple of other windows, and takes forever to swap between them.
Therefore, the problem with the new PC is that it’s making my laptop look old, slow, and tired, and as such it means that replacing the laptop is slowly going up the priority chain…
Why not just remote the desktop from the laptop? All the speed. None of the cost 🙂
I noticed a similar thing when I built my new desktop – suddenly my laptop seemed to have got glacially and unusably slow. Cleaning up my laptop a bit and defragging the hard disc seems to have helped a bit, but a 2Ghz Celeron with 512MB and a piddly 30GB HDD doesn’t really hold a candle to an Athlon64 3200 with 1GB RAM and 250GB of SATA hard disc space.
And I’m *already* thinking of upgrading the CPU in my desktop to a dual-core Athlon64 3800 now the prices have fallen…