Not malware exactly more demoware when you buy them these days. The first
thing any new user should do is strip it back to the core stuff, then
install what they want.

It is, however very wasteful, modern ways of creating software, with huge
runtimes, loads of graphics and lots of redundant routines in from
different programming environments that folk use to make their software. Its
no wonder that much of it is only partly accessible.
Brian

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On 12/03/2020 08:06, John wrote:

Why do machines with fast multi-core processors end up being
unbearably slow? The reasons must be known and easily fixable.

Depends a bit on what timescale you are talking about...

With older machines of the Core2duo era, the experience is frequently
pretty poor these days even if working at peak performance, simply because
the world of software has moved on. OS and Applications sizes (and hence
load times) and memory usage have increased vastly in the last ten years
or more. So disk performance has a big impact on perceived speed of the
machine, and old HDDs are going to suffer a disproportionate hit. If
because of the larger memory footprint you also start paging sooner, you
get a further big hit in performance. In more recent times much software
has gone 64 bit, and that again makes for larger application sizes and in
many cases memory use as well.

Increasing the RAM, and changing to a SSD can help greatly, but will not
necessarily fix all ills since CPU grunt is required for some things that
modern software expects to be able to do.

Modern usage is far more dependant on internet access speed - so poor
performance there will have a much bigger impact on system usability than
in the past.

Web content is also orders of magnitude larger than in the past - so the
memory and processing requirements for handling web pages has increased in
many cases to anything from 10x to 1000x what they were.

All that assumes the machine is running just what you want. Even modern
spec machines will slow if loaded with enough malware.


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