24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
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Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
#172Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
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All the concerns in your comment are real, but they can be boiled down to one simple fact: Moore's law is dead. Our processors are now not advancing nearly as quickly as people can create solutions for them. Case in point - Virtual Reality, which has technically been on the market for years, but out of reach for most users. If processors are not improving, everything else slows down. Graphics, games, and the internet…
The internet, sure. But GPUs will figure out new ways to parallelize, which is not dead yet.
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
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#175Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
#176I'm running Manjaro Linux with Deepin Desktop on a Dual core 0.9Ghz CPU with 8 GB of memory. Boot speed from off to login is less than 5 seconds. From hibernate it's instant. My girlfriend brought similar desktop to work and people with windows couldn't believe the machine was that fast. It runs circles around their new windows laptops with tons of memory and cpu cores. Firefox loads in a second. Kingsoft office also…
There's this concept of right tool for the right job. And even if you save 2 seconds of boot time, that is meaningless when you encounter a similar bug with your software and waste a day, or when you simply waste time because you needlessly switched to an unfamiliar OS.
Just as a note, I have a Windows 10 booting on a decade old Lenovo netbook. That's a single core 1.6GHz Atom with 1.5GB RAM. It boots in ~10s. Much of it is BIOS. And yes, I can type an email with no issues. You should really try switching to Windows 10 and this dirt cheap netbook. :)
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
#177I just kind of figured we'd stop having UI lag by now. I work on a 24 core workstation with 64GB of RAM and things lag all the time. Not slow to complete, like jittery key entry and non-responses. Haven't we figured out thread prioritization by now? Can't we make sure something draws 60 times per second while things are going on in the background? My Android Studio build should be totally isolated from my inbox. I kn…
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
#178I'm running Manjaro Linux with Deepin Desktop on a Dual core 0.9Ghz CPU with 8 GB of memory. Boot speed from off to login is less than 5 seconds. From hibernate it's instant. My girlfriend brought similar desktop to work and people with windows couldn't believe the machine was that fast. It runs circles around their new windows laptops with tons of memory and cpu cores. Firefox loads in a second. Kingsoft office also…
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
#179On a completely different matter... have just switched to Gmail new UI, and now my mac Mail keeps hanging on threaded emails while consuming very high CPU. Anyone else encountered this issue?
What browser? For the last couple of years it seems I'll get some issues on some Google properties if I dare use a different browser than Chrome. For a while it was search results doing interval training on my CPU, while the page was supposedly idle. Last it got to the point where I started troubleshooting it was calendar that acted up. You'd think a company like Google had resources to verify the UI across at least…
Should they ever want to do that. I think I've read multiple discussions in the past about how Google is optimizing exclusively for Chrome while hurting the performance and compatibility with any other browser. Which is why Chrome is now basically called the new IE6.
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email
#180Gmail and Inbox both hang for me on my Chrome on Linux with almost no load. It's funny how tides turn. Initially Gmail was the king of performance.