I'm pretty sure that the biggest slowdown for Chrome isn't the memcpy/bitblitting for the display - it's probably something to do with the insanely big history files it generates as part of it's searchable history.
Files you can't limit in size, can't compress, can't optimise. Instead all you can do is to delete them and loose all your precious history information. It also has the bonus of providing a searchable address bar that performs significantly worse than firefox's searchable address bar !
I use both firefox and chrome simultaneously at home and at work, dedicated each browser for different tasks I do. It's a real shame that Chrome is being seriously degraded over time by this fault - I've started switching back to firefox because of it as my laptop just struggles too much with it now...
Well, this doesn't look much like a market for Microsoft to play in. I wonder how long it will be before the intended users want to play games, or run Excel? Something tells me that it will be day zero.
Reading the article:
Vinay L. Deshpande, chairman and chief executive officer of Encore Software, told a press conference the system would have the essential features of a conventional personal computer: everyday applications such as word processing, spreadsheet, personal information manager, e-mail and web-browser. It will play music and movies, have text-to-speech conversion facility
Sounds like it's got a powerful enough processor to cover the typical usage of a PC. Including 'Excel' or whatever equivalent they provide and games. Sure they won't be the latest but it will play games!
I frequently use the recent programmes list to start programs. I increased that to 10 and I rarely run something that isn't on the list. I find this an incredibly useful addition.
The only other UI changes in XP that I think are an improvement is the grouping option in My computer and the font cleartype.
I don't like the default XP UI, it added bulk around the icons/windows so you lost window space. I found the old look skin wasn't an exact copy of the Win2k look so I'm using an alternative.
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It was the quinkey or microwriter. Can remember playing with it but not for long enough to be interested.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter
I'm pretty sure that the biggest slowdown for Chrome isn't the memcpy/bitblitting for the display - it's probably something to do with the insanely big history files it generates as part of it's searchable history.
Files you can't limit in size, can't compress, can't optimise. Instead all you can do is to delete them and loose all your precious history information.
It also has the bonus of providing a searchable address bar that performs significantly worse than firefox's searchable address bar !
I use both firefox and chrome simultaneously at home and at work, dedicated each browser for different tasks I do. It's a real shame that Chrome is being seriously degraded over time by this fault - I've started switching back to firefox because of it as my laptop just struggles too much with it now...
Reading the article:
Sounds like it's got a powerful enough processor to cover the typical usage of a PC. Including 'Excel' or whatever equivalent they provide and games. Sure they won't be the latest but it will play games!
I frequently use the recent programmes list to start programs. I increased that to 10 and I rarely run something that isn't on the list. I find this an incredibly useful addition.
The only other UI changes in XP that I think are an improvement is the grouping option in My computer and the font cleartype.
I don't like the default XP UI, it added bulk around the icons/windows so you lost window space. I found the old look skin wasn't an exact copy of the Win2k look so I'm using an alternative.
Of course it's not going to be accurate to this date but check out Septebmer 19th 2005.