Google| Subject | XP mem usage musings |
| From | AD |
| Date | 02/01/2012 13:44 (02/01/2012 04:44) |
| Message-ID | <65ebc0e3-f2ea-4c88-b836-021791b6d336@l14g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> |
| Client | |
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Followups | Alan Baker (7h & 20m) Sandman (8h & 15m) |
I've replaced dead hdd in my dv1013us yesterday, installed xp sp2 on hd160hc and guess what?
it fits in under 100 megs of ram. granted, i could make linux run on less than 16 but with xp you get a user friendly os and media buttons work. gonna install hp slugware to bring memory usage to 200 megs so that I don't feel too bad looking at the activity monitor system memory page:
writing this from a last gen 8mb 17" macbook pro running 10.7.2 bloatware solely so that xcode can work (strangely xcode 4.2.1 is just a tad over 300 megs today. 4.3p3 looks pretty good also stability wise not sure who got whacked but it seems to solidify, gradually)
02/01/2012
