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Our Blogs The BeerFiles Desktop software: not green, not lean and mighty unclean | Desktop software: not green, not lean and mighty unclean |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 09 June 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 4 In these days of environmental consciousness, claiming to
be green while producing desktop software that requires copious amounts
of local computer resources to run is a bit rich.Featured Whitepaper
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Like many other desktop computer users I know, in the past couple of years I have grown increasingly frustrated with my desktop systems. I was continually being told what an improvement the next operating system Vista would be. I was told how much more secure it would be, how much more stable, how elegant the new interface was with its Aero glass windows. I was also told how I needed Office 2007 because it was 10 years ahead of what I was already using. That one came directly from the horse's mouth at Redmond! Of course, in order to take advantage of all this new software, I would need a Vista compliant computer. I was told that Vista loves memory - the more the better. It also loves lots of processing power, preferably with a dedicated graphics processor. So, hardware being relatively cheap these days, I invested in a desktop monster with a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT GPU 256MB DDR2. It has so many fans, it would keep me up at night if I didn't power it down. So problem fixed? Please read on to page 3 |
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