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To: JP Sullivan who wrote (92268)	2/18/2010 11:28:17 AM
From: Stock Puppy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

When someone comes to me complaining that their computer (Mac or PC) is running slow, I look to see how many applications they have open - which is the usual cause of the slowness. When the computer has to keep Word's Zippy the paperclip dancing, Excel's furiously recalculating every cell on the sheet whether changed or not, Browser with Flash ads showing people bopping around because they're going to find out their credit scores and the computer trying to keep everything in memory but has to keep swapping memory to disk and back because of insufficient RAM to keep all these processes going, and the poor dude is trying to read his e-mail at the same time, sure things might get a bit pokey. So it does make sense on the iPad not to have multitasking or to have some sort of strict regulation for it. Maybe they can have some sort of user selection for background runs for legitimate situations - such as when some guy wants to perform finite element analysis of the flame front resulting from the collision of a Toyota Corolla as it crashes into the back of a Ford Pinto but he also needs to watch "Hamster Dance" on his browser at the same time.

To: JP Sullivan who wrote (92268)	2/18/2010 11:42:22 AM
From: Stock Puppy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Speaking of Memory and swapping to disk: Most Windows 7 systems consume nearly all RAM; less than half of XP PCs do computerworld.com "This is alarming," Barth said of Windows 7 machines' resource consumption. "For the OS to be pushing the hardware limits this quickly is amazing. Windows 7 is not the lean, mean version of Vista that you may think it is." I guess that shows how advanced Win 7 is!!! ...users are more familiar with the opposite: that hardware stays ahead of operating system requirements. " ...."Now, everything that Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away," Barth said." Poor Apple users - their OS is so backward, it gets faster with each new version. Probably Apple keeps taking stuff out so you get less and less for your money. Well hey, I not too long ago bought some software for $10,000+. They sent me two floppies. At first I felt gypped - what did I get for my money? (ans: functionality) Actually the floppies turned out to be be keys to activate software that I didn't know I had. But the actual software itself were small modules - no GUI or object oriented stuff so they are far smaller than Word (oops there goes my keyboard again)