Comments on: Speed up Windows XP with Software http://chris.pirillo.com/speed-up-windows-xp-with-software/ News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:33:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Starvin Marvinhttp://chris.pirillo.com/speed-up-windows-xp-with-software/comment-page-1/#comment-362991 Starvin Marvin Wed, 23 May 2007 18:34:23 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/05/23/speed-up-windows-xp-with-software/#comment-362991 Whilst having more than one program or task open at the same time is fairly common these days, it is still rather unusual to run out of available memory. Having polled ten other people (3 gamers, 4 home business/MS Office users, 3 photo/video hobbyists) I could only find one person who has experienced low-memory symptoms as described on the Cacheman website.Most of the people I spoke with are using 2 to 4 year-old computers with 512MB of RAM. Often running two apps, and occasionally three or four, they told me they have no slowdowns lasting more than a couple of seconds.Two of us have Athlon 64 cpus, one has Intel Core 2 Duo, and one has a MacBook laptop. The rest are single-core Intel P4 cpus. The gamers (myself included) never leave any major programs running when we launch a 3D game. We all know better!The only guy who gets significant slowdowns is the MacBook owner. He uses high-end digital SLR cameras as well as film cameras. The photo image files that he works with may be several hundred megabytes in size. Even though he has 2GB of memory he experiences slowdowns lasting several seconds when working with several "layers" of an image.The MacBook guy and all but two of the other people whom I asked said that if they experienced significant slowdowns they would either close one program, or defrag their hard drive, or buy more memory. In any case, none of them seemed interested in a Cacheman-like program to recover memory.So I wonder, is there really a big market for programs like Cacheman? Whilst having more than one program or task open at the same time is fairly common these days, it is still rather unusual to run out of available memory. Having polled ten other people (3 gamers, 4 home business/MS Office users, 3 photo/video hobbyists) I could only find one person who has experienced low-memory symptoms as described on the Cacheman website.

Most of the people I spoke with are using 2 to 4 year-old computers with 512MB of RAM. Often running two apps, and occasionally three or four, they told me they have no slowdowns lasting more than a couple of seconds.

Two of us have Athlon 64 cpus, one has Intel Core 2 Duo, and one has a MacBook laptop. The rest are single-core Intel P4 cpus. The gamers (myself included) never leave any major programs running when we launch a 3D game. We all know better!

The only guy who gets significant slowdowns is the MacBook owner. He uses high-end digital SLR cameras as well as film cameras. The photo image files that he works with may be several hundred megabytes in size. Even though he has 2GB of memory he experiences slowdowns lasting several seconds when working with several “layers” of an image.

The MacBook guy and all but two of the other people whom I asked said that if they experienced significant slowdowns they would either close one program, or defrag their hard drive, or buy more memory. In any case, none of them seemed interested in a Cacheman-like program to recover memory.

So I wonder, is there really a big market for programs like Cacheman?

]]> By: DinoHorsehttp://chris.pirillo.com/speed-up-windows-xp-with-software/comment-page-1/#comment-362838 DinoHorse Wed, 23 May 2007 15:52:51 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/05/23/speed-up-windows-xp-with-software/#comment-362838 I have been using all those Tweaking optimization softwares for so many years now, and honestly, there is none that really satisfies me. There are always issues, specially when messing with RAM optimization... I will try this one and give it an honest look... I have been using all those Tweaking optimization softwares for so many years now, and honestly, there is none that really satisfies me. There are always issues, specially when messing with RAM optimization… I will try this one and give it an honest look…

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