Unless it's noted as a figure of speech, then who knows?ibm450 wrote:it was a figure of speech - but thanks for the in depth info on the % of OS users.....
Actually, 1 or 2 seconds really doesn't seem to bother most of anyone I know who lives and works out of a mobile environment. What matters is that stability of the service they're using. Literally 80% of what I post to this forum (including this post) is done on the go from a cell phone (a Palm Pre actually), and in that environment Microsoft is barely holding on to any market share they had in the first place.ibm450 wrote:as far as benchmarking, i dont even bother to benchmark linux against windows OS as windows needs AV's and so many background services to be fully protected and i dont even bench mark my windows as i am satisfied with the performance of the machine as it is. my main desktop pc 3GHZ HT 3GB mem with a sporty graphics card that plays the basic games that i want. i even use windows apps on linux as certain apps on linux are too slow for my likings (i.e m$ office compared to openoffice)
i do agree who cares in 1 sec here or there, but when your on the move or in the mobile world that require on the spot use, these 1 or 2 secs do make a world of a difference.
Even in a mobile environment people aren't diving toward the latest and greatest just for the speed, or the quality of the performance, or any other given factor. If this was the case, then everyone I know would be sporting a Motorola Droid (which is Linux based, mind you) and a laptop with a quad core chip (or at least lusting for that combination). I live in a BOOMING tech hotspot and the market for administrators and coders is hotly contested and fiercely won. One of my upcoming meetings scheduled is to brainstorm for ideas to start globalizing and monetizing services like Glympse, amongst other things. This being said, speed is not the issue, reliability is the issue. If you have a chip with 14 GHz sitting on top of 32 GB of DDR3 RAM beside a 25 TB hard drive all using ANY current OS and you can't even check your email........then your pretty screwed. If you have a substandard OS on a substandard machine that is ALWAYS doing what you need it to, then you can get your work done and never have a hiccup in the process. Who cares if it takes you 5 minutes longer to upload that file, or 15 seconds longer to log in to your Facebook.
My point is that speed is not that much of an issue, not to the vast majority of people who are going to be using whatever it is on their machine, even when you start dealing with the tech end and the mobile end. As long as it works, and it isn't terribly slow, then the speed thing really doesn't matter. More people worry about "what" they're doing more so than they worry about "how fast" it can be done. Admittedly there are exceptions, but exceptions are, in fact, exceptions and don't define the rule as a whole.