Peter Suetterlin said the following on 08/25/2010 08:40 AM:
Rodney Baker wrote:
Turning of KDE4's desktop effects (i.e. suspend compositing) will drop the CPU usage to near zero again.
While true, this is only a workaround. Wasting 20% of a really powerful machine for *nothing* (it uses it even if nothing happens) is a bug and not a blemish....
The same could be said of any GUI ... "we command line fanatics ..." Why waste money on computer power when a * radio * mp3 player * tv costs so little? The answer is the user. In practice, delivered CPU power has stayed about the same as the workload and complexity and presentation has grown ore sophisticated. If I compile things now on my dual-core machine, they seem to go about as fast as they did on that old PDP-11/45 back at the beginning of the 80, when I had a dumb terminal and a CLI. Seem to. And even though DOS3.3/WordPerfect4.2 was the hight of office automation I'm not producing business letters and printing them an faster than I did 25 years ago. Or it doesn't seem that way. Well, there are some benefits. This Compaq Presario laptop is a lot lighter and has a bigger, clearer screen than the 386/20 "luggable" "lunchbox" I had back in 1987, so I'm not complaining. -- The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. -- Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (1995), quoted from Victor J. Stenger, Has Science Found God? (2001) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org