11-08-2016, 11:53 AM
Exactly! LL in my experience is vastly superior to the overpriced, unstable, and unsecured Microsoft products.
Now that I have the widget, I can see system resource usage. LL, even with Chromium and Gmail - one of the most demanding web-pages - rarely goes over 500 MB to 750 MB of memory usage - I think I can use it with full performance on a 1 GB machine! On the other hand, Windows 7 - one of the better Microsoft products - takes at least four times the memory, and even XP has difficulty running on 1 GB.
Usually, in Windows the bottleneck is the memory - in LL the bottleneck is the CPU on really antiquated computers (e.g. my laptop's Intel Atom N455 CPU) as memory usage is far more efficient. On anything with a slightly more modern CPU (e.g. the Intel Atom N280 on my fiancee's laptop), LL flies even on machines where Windows hardly works (e.g. the OEM XP which came on my Fiancee's laptop).
Now that I have the widget, I can see system resource usage. LL, even with Chromium and Gmail - one of the most demanding web-pages - rarely goes over 500 MB to 750 MB of memory usage - I think I can use it with full performance on a 1 GB machine! On the other hand, Windows 7 - one of the better Microsoft products - takes at least four times the memory, and even XP has difficulty running on 1 GB.
Usually, in Windows the bottleneck is the memory - in LL the bottleneck is the CPU on really antiquated computers (e.g. my laptop's Intel Atom N455 CPU) as memory usage is far more efficient. On anything with a slightly more modern CPU (e.g. the Intel Atom N280 on my fiancee's laptop), LL flies even on machines where Windows hardly works (e.g. the OEM XP which came on my Fiancee's laptop).