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Re: Winamp 5.9

#21

Post by prmoustache »

chrsw wrote: post #11

Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop. Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements…

> Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware.

Surely you mean more efficiently. I would hate my music being speed up :-)

Re: Winamp 5.9

#22

Post by vladvasiliu »

chrsw wrote: post #11

Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop. Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements…

This. I'm honestly not quite sure what kind of supercomputer would be needed to have Teams not lag.

I'm kind of OK with having to wait around for a compile or other heavy "modern workload" (though I must say I don't do this all day every day). But it drives me absolutely crazy to have basic software lag when I type. This absolutely kills the experience for me.

Re: Winamp 5.9

#23

Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #20
ethbr0 wrote: post #6

I'll just leave this here to stoke the flames of nostalgia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Winamp2.PNG

I've said this a few times on here but I'll say it again. Starting from 86Box, archive.org, and winworld, I've been building a VM of my 1996 Gateway 2000 with Windows 95 and re-installing all the old goodies. I also did a find on my mp3 library and found everything last modified before 1999 and loaded them up on there as well. So now I can actually go into a super realistic VM experience in full screen and use Winamp…

How is 3D acceleration for things like ATI Rage?

Re: Winamp 5.9

#25

Post by readevalpanic »

chrsw wrote: post #11

Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop. Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements…

Older software sometimes runs just as fast on older hardware, too. It’s anecdotal, but I never remember waiting on Winamp to start up. iTunes, on the other hand, has always seemed slow.

Re: Winamp 5.9

#26

Post by TedDoesntTalk »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #22
chrsw wrote: post #11

Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop. Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements…

This. I'm honestly not quite sure what kind of supercomputer would be needed to have Teams not lag. I'm kind of OK with having to wait around for a compile or other heavy "modern workload" (though I must say I don't do this all day every day). But it drives me absolutely crazy to have basic software lag when I type. This absolutely kills the experience for me.

I use Teams daily on a MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM. If I walk away from the laptop and Teams detects idleness, it starts consuming 100% CPU and the fan turns on. Returning to the computer, everything is dog slow for several minutes. Drives me crazy.

The other thing that drives me crazy about Teams is there still is no “temporary mute” for channels. I can’t mute a channel for say, an hour. I have to suffer through notifications about topics I’m not interested in. I know there is a “turn off notifications” by conversation. But that’s not helpful when there are new conversations all the time.

Re: Winamp 5.9

#27

Post by function_seven »

prmoustache wrote: post #21
chrsw wrote: post #11

Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop. Of course, you usually need the latest hardware to eat through modern workloads. But aside from that, I sometimes forget clearing out software bloat is a much more effective way to gain performance, productivity and improvements…

> Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Surely you mean more efficiently. I would hate my music being speed up :-)

If you don’t want to listen to the music fast, there’s a button on your machine called Turbo. Toggle that off.

Re: Winamp 5.9

#28

Post by acidburnNSA »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #23
acidburnNSA wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've said this a few times on here but I'll say it again. Starting from 86Box, archive.org, and winworld, I've been building a VM of my 1996 Gateway 2000 with Windows 95 and re-installing all the old goodies. I also did a find on my mp3 library and found everything last modified before 1999 and loaded them up on there as well. So now I can actually go into a super realistic VM experience in full screen and use Winamp…

How is 3D acceleration for things like ATI Rage?

Oh I haven't gotten quite that far yet. Will need to get into it soon to get Descent II and stuff working.

Re: Winamp 5.9

#29

Post by PcChip »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #20
ethbr0 wrote: post #6

I'll just leave this here to stoke the flames of nostalgia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Winamp2.PNG

I've said this a few times on here but I'll say it again. Starting from 86Box, archive.org, and winworld, I've been building a VM of my 1996 Gateway 2000 with Windows 95 and re-installing all the old goodies. I also did a find on my mp3 library and found everything last modified before 1999 and loaded them up on there as well. So now I can actually go into a super realistic VM experience in full screen and use Winamp…

Man I'd love to get a copy of that vm!

Re: Winamp 5.9

#30

Post by mijowi »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #26
vladvasiliu wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. I'm honestly not quite sure what kind of supercomputer would be needed to have Teams not lag. I'm kind of OK with having to wait around for a compile or other heavy "modern workload" (though I must say I don't do this all day every day). But it drives me absolutely crazy to have basic software lag when I type. This absolutely kills the experience for me.

I use Teams daily on a MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM. If I walk away from the laptop and Teams detects idleness, it starts consuming 100% CPU and the fan turns on. Returning to the computer, everything is dog slow for several minutes. Drives me crazy. The other thing that drives me crazy about Teams is there still is no “temporary mute” for channels. I can’t mute a channel for say, an hour. I have to suffer through noti…

Maybe azure is actually millions of idle windows machines instead of datacenters.
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