RE: Performance increase with PC upgrade

["Westdorp, Tom" <Tom.Westdorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

P4, 1.6 ghz Thinkpad, 768mb ram, 60gb HD, XPpro, connection either cable
modem wired or 802.11g or 10/100E in the office, Performance is okay.
Cursing and swearing still happens, but volume is low.

P4, 3.06 ghz, 1gb ram, two HD's (swap on seperate drive), XPpro, connection
is cable modem wired, performance is decent.  Still slow to start, but it's
java.  

PIII, 1ghz, 768mb ram, two HD's (swap on seperate drive), XPpro, connection
is 10/100E, performance is poor.  Cursing and swearing is continous, loud
and deserved.  I think this 'should' be enough PC, but it's really not.

It should go without saying, but the latter example is my desktop at work
and the first two are personal machines.

In all cases direct usage of CODE is great!

In the old days of OS/2 there was a java stub that you could start at boot
time, and doing so made all the java stuff thereafter load much faster.  It
got the jvm loaded up, and it stayed running.  We need that kind of thing
again IMHO.

Get a P4, if at all possible.  Get 1gb RAM.  I know on a personal basis that
productivity goes down as frustration goes up.  More coding errors happen
when you're frustrated, as well.  Happy code comes from happy programmers,
but reality sometimes bytes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Malchow, Grizzly [mailto:GMalchow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:06 AM
To: code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Performance increase with PC upgrade


Hello,

I'm have WDS installed on my PC and the performance is extremely
sluggish. It takes about 2 minutes to start WDS and response after that
is slow. Also if I am running any other applications they are equally as
slow. I have a 530 MHZ PIII with a 10GB hard drive with XP Pro
installed. From what I've read my PC isn't really suited for running
WDS. Can anyone tell me what sort of performance increase I will see if
I get a new PC? I'd have to imagine anything new will be fine, but will
I see a big performance increase?

Griz