Agreed not much ram at all. Fortunately this model is upgradeable to I GB. My observations were made in haste it seems. After approx. 1/2 hour Firefox ground to a halt. At least Chrome has been usable the entire time. I'll upgrade the RAM. [?]
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Caleb Eggensperger <[email protected]>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/ > -- 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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