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Thinking About Desktop Eyecandy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the almost-entirely-a-glorious-waste dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article ponders over whether excess eye candy and special effects being incorporated on the desktop is a good trend after all? The author explains why he thinks the users are taken for a ride by the OS companies in compelling them to upgrade their hardware in order to enable these processor intensive and memory hungry special effects."

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  1. Re:No thanks. by spacebird · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you have memory intensive apps running now that weren't running before? Yeah, Windows XP.

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