Google| Subject | Re: XP mem usage musings |
| From | Alan Baker |
| Date | 02/01/2012 21:04 (02/01/2012 12:04) |
| Message-ID | <alangbaker-CCCDDC.12044801022012@news.shawcable.net> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Follows | AD |
In article <65ebc0e3-f2ea-4c88-b836-021791b6d336@l14g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>, AD <isquat@gmail.com>wrote:
ADDon't you think that's just a tad disingenuous; comparing today's Mac OS X to an OS more than 6 years old?
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)
You should really compare the RAM footprint of XP to Mac OS X 10.3...
...or you should compare 10.7.2 to Windows 7.
-)-- "The iPhone doesn't have... ...well, since Edwin seems to have finally crawled away for good, I guess I'll let him off the hook
02/01/2012
