OSNews > Thread > "The video: not impressive at all" by GreatBunzinni

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 3rd Sep 2006 12:29 UTC

Here are some screenshots of the new test version of Ubuntu, and a video showing no slowdown after loading over 40 applications on a 1 GB RAM, P4 desktop.

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The video: not impressive at all

by GreatBunzinni on Sun 3rd Sep 2006 13:22 UTC

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2005-10-31

First of all, 1GB of RAM is a heck of a lot of RAM. It would only be strange if a machine with all that RAM couldn't handle a reasonably sized workload. Second, the vast majority of the applications are only small teeny weeny games which do not need many resources. The only reasonably apps which I noticed were loaded were OpenOffice (the resource hog by definition) and the GIMP and both apps load up rather nicely on Ubuntu 6.06 with 512MB RAM. Third, the video only shows someone open each and every app from the menu. It doesn't show any of those apps being used or even the user switching between those apps.

So in the end that video shows nothing. I mean, really. The user opened a big pile of applications and didn't worked on any of them. What is there to see? I'm a huge Ubuntu fanboy but hey, let's keep thing in perspective, shall we?

Edited 2006-09-03 13:23

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RE: The video: not impressive at all

by Kroc on Sun 3rd Sep 2006 14:02 in reply to "The video: not impressive at all"

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2005-11-10

'If you search for the evidence you want, you will find it; even if it is not there.'

I'm in agreement that the user is only demonstrating what they want to see. This same task could easily be executed in Mac OS and Windows with 1GB of RAM. If the user wanted to proove at least something, the same task would be repeated in 256 & 512MB RAM and the differences measured.

This is rather poor editing from OSNews.

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RE: The video: not impressive at all

by segedunum on Sun 3rd Sep 2006 18:08 in reply to "The video: not impressive at all"

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2005-07-06

The user opened a big pile of applications and didn't worked on any of them. What is there to see?

What it's trying to show you is that Gnome isn't as slow as hell. Unfortunately, the user didn't do anything with any of those applications.

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