On 21/01/2014 22:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 21/01/14 22:39, dennis@home wrote:
On 21/01/2014 14:20, John Williamson wrote:
On 21/01/2014 13:36, Brian Gaff wrote:
No its not an ad, but it is amazing after the thread about stuff you
keep
that this particular stuff actually still works, and to be honest if
you ran
a small database it seems to work surprisingly well according to a
sighted
friend. Kind of makes you wonder what all these mega gigabyte machines
use
all their power for.

For running the pretty, graphics heavy, user interface. That and the
bloat that's in all modern operating systems. This 1.6 gigahertz Windows
7 computer uses about a quarter of its processing power and 750
megabytes of RAM just keeping Windows ticking over.



There is something wrong then.
My win8 machine runs at about 4% @ ~800 mhz when idling.
(it has power saving on so the clock speed varies a bit.)

A lot depends on the graphics GPU if it has one..



At this moment, Firefox is using between 30 and 50%, the networking is
using another 10 %, and I've also got Thunderbird open, taking up to
10%. The total CPU load is hovering around the 75% mark. It's a laptop,
with an Atom processor, and the standard Intel mobile 945 chipset.

--
Tciao for Now!

John.