I have an old Dell (~800MHz P3), and it's maximum memory is 512MB. Might be a limiting factor, but 512 would still be better than 128, I suppose.
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 15:21 -0700, Caleb Eggensperger wrote: > That's not very much RAM. As I understand it, Chrome's multiprocess > architecture results in more dependency on memory, so your > observations do make sense. > > > How are you even running XP pro on 100MB of RAM? Do you mean 128 MB? > That's the minimum required amount according > to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sysreqs/pro.mspx. > > > Do yourself a favor and buy a couple of 1GB sticks of RAM for ~$30: > > > dealram.com > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 15:12, S D Allen <[email protected]> > wrote: > G'day folks; > > The following is not a complaint but an observation. > > I have an older laptop (Toshiba P3) with 100 Mb's of ram, 800 > Mhz that I like to use for e-mail and web browsing. I > recently installed XP-Pro on it with both Google Chrome (Dev) > and Firefox 3.5. On my workstation Chrome is a little faster > but on my laptop, Firefox runs circles around Chrome. Is this > to be expected ? > > -- > Cheers, > Steve > http://www.linkedin.com/in/torontostephenallen > http://www.facebook.com/S.D.Allen > http://portfolio-s-d-allen.blogspot.com/ > http://friendfeed.com/chimpanze > > > > > > > > -- > Caleb Eggensperger > http://calebegg.com/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
