Lately I’ve been finding that my computer’s memory usage is very high. Right now I have Pidgin and Firefox running on XGL/Compiz, and the computer is using a massive 440 megabytes of RAM.
Isn’t it so perverse that gnome-panel alone is using 100 times more memory than the 1984 Macintosh shipped with? I mean, dude, you could run the operating system and MacPaint in a mere 128 kilobytes of RAM, off a 400 kilobyte floppy disk.
I’m sure I’ve mentioned it on here before, but we are doing the same things with our computers that we were doing in 1999, but with 10 times as much memory in use. Think about it: Voip? Some people were using it; heck, some people were video conferencing. Video editing? I was doing that back then. Virtualisation? Maybe not, but some people did emulation (and both tasks require similar amounts of memory). Music production? Dude, I could keep 12 audio tracks and a MIDI synth going at once on my iMac with 96 megs of RAM and a 333 MHz processor.
The only things we do these days that might justify such a broad expanse of memory are gaming (where the games do, through higher resolutions and improved textures, require more RAM) and running the Storm worm.
Entries (RSS)