On 21/01/2014 23:01, John Williamson wrote:
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.

Try a nice fast processor and it can waste even more cycles keeping
Windows ticking over but with a much nicer low percentage! :-)

I am seeing between 1 and 2% on an i7...

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Rod