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03-11-2015 , 08:53 AM

#17101

Grue

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yeah photoshop CC1 on my 2010 machine with 8gb ram and SSD opens virtually instantly and has no slowdowns while doing anything normal.

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03-11-2015 , 08:59 AM

#17102

Anais

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Glad to see a little bit of rustlage from my use of 'k' in the year

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03-11-2015 , 09:26 AM

#17103

kerowo

lolcat

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 37,190

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

I bought close to a top of the line poker computer in like 2008 - has Windows Vista pro or something on it. It's getting very slow and chuggy. I'm wondering if wiping it clean and upgrading to windows 8 or 10 or something would help.

7 years old is pretty old. I don't follow Windows hardware much but I'd start by looking at the processor and memory on the machine and see how big a gap there with what's in today's machines.

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03-11-2015 , 10:52 AM

#17104

suzzer99

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 99,984

Ok looks like I have an i7 @2.67 Ghz, 4gb ram with windows vista ultimate (32 bit). It's 6 years old. I found the thread I made in the computer forum about it: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/48...system-432959/ But I took a screenshot of the build (FU imageshack).

I could upgrade the OS, Ram and get an SSD. Or try to upgrade the CPU as well. Or get a new motherboard and everything. The latter probably makes the most sense.

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03-11-2015 , 11:03 AM

#17105

Gullanian

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You probably can't easily upgrade mobo/CPU individually, both or neither.

I'd do what others have said, buy an SSD and fresh install Win 8. If it's not good enough, look at other options.

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03-11-2015 , 12:24 PM

#17106

Grue

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Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 5,667

Your bottleneck is your RAM and SSD would help a lot too. But spend the $25 to get another 4gb for sure.

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03-11-2015 , 02:33 PM

#17107

Shoe Lace

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Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 3,654

Yeah an i7 is pretty solid. Format + SSD, gogogo.

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03-11-2015 , 04:37 PM

#17108

adios

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

Get yourself a brand new system. You want upgrade from 32 bits to 64 bits. Yes SSD, yes 8GB, yes i7. The hardware forum has a lot of good posts and posters.

Windows kernel takes half the virtual address space in a 32 bit system. You want a 4 core processor with lots of cache memory.

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03-11-2015 , 05:18 PM

#17109

suzzer99

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Originally Posted by Grue

Your bottleneck is your RAM and SSD would help a lot too. But spend the $25 to get another 4gb for sure.

I also have to upgrade the OS to 64bit. I actually have a high-RPM non-SSD drive. But it's loud and takes a little bit to "wake up". Very annoying.

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03-11-2015 , 08:14 PM

#17110

adios

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

I also have to upgrade the OS to 64bit. I actually have a high-RPM non-SSD drive. But it's loud and takes a little bit to "wake up". Very annoying.

Extra RAM will help in the OS not having to swap process data and executable code to disk as much (how much this happens depends) and of course an SSD really makes a difference with swapping.

Again, where you can really help your system avoid memory bottlenecks is buy a processor with a lot of cache memory.

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03-11-2015 , 08:29 PM

#17111

Barrin6

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He has an i7, don't think he needs to buy another new laptop. New SSD and ram should suffice.

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03-11-2015 , 11:08 PM

#17112

daveT

S.A.G.E. Master

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 23,955

I feel like starting a thread on the worst software you've ever used, but I feel like my OP would be /end thread, /winnar, or whatever. I'm seriously trying to figure out how to start invoicing this company for all the wasted time.

After pondering the above conversation a bit, I realize that I'm coming from an extreme place, and I'll readily acknowledge that I'm likely wrong on quite a bit because it is possible that I'm blinded and excessively frustrated with the crap the current company is using.

Sometimes I beg the stars that I'm wrong.

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03-12-2015 , 12:15 AM

#17113

suzzer99

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Originally Posted by Barrin6

He has an i7, don't think he needs to buy another new laptop. New SSD and ram should suffice.

It's a tower.

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03-12-2015 , 02:28 AM

#17114

Craggoo

banned

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Originally Posted by daveT

The point of a thread like that wouldn't be to brag that you've had the worst software experience of anyone here or at least it shouldn't be imo.

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03-12-2015 , 08:48 AM

#17115

ChrisV

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Worst software you've ever used would be Adobe anything /thread.

Unless we're talking random small distribution software in which case I guess consult thedailywtf.com.

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03-12-2015 , 08:59 AM

#17116

jjshabado

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http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19...picks-1185894/

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03-12-2015 , 10:02 AM

#17117

candybar

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Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 4,234

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Originally Posted by jjshabado

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19...picks-1185894/

That thread is not very good. Virtually nothing mentioned there is bad, except by some impossible standard. It's like trying to come up with the worst basketball players in the world and naming Russell Westbrook and Kobe Bryant.

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03-12-2015 , 10:05 AM

#17118

candybar

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Anyone else saw this on HN?

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/...g-starfighter/

I'm skeptical, because the world of software development is very large and it seems presumptuous for the founders, who may be very good, but are probably only experts in some narrow vertical, to think that they can judge every programmer's skill using some game.

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03-12-2015 , 11:09 AM

#17119

suzzer99

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

Worst software you've ever used would be Adobe anything /thread.

Unless we're talking random small distribution software in which case I guess consult thedailywtf.com.

Photoshop is one of the best pieces of software ever made.

iTunes is one of the worst.

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03-12-2015 , 11:21 AM

#17120

candybar

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

iTunes is one of the worst.

Is iTunes on MacOSX as bad as iTunes on Windows?

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03-12-2015 , 11:24 AM

#17121

suzzer99

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I don't know, I only use a Mac at work.

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03-12-2015 , 12:18 PM

#17122

Grue

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^ that's pretty surprising to me.

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03-12-2015 , 12:23 PM

#17123

Stake Monster

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Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,941

Just finished a 9-week Ruby on Rails bootcamp in Vancouver (CodeCore)... it was awesome. If anyone has questions on the format or the specific course I'd be happy to answer any.

What we covered:
- Ruby on Rails
- HTML/CSS
- JS/jQuery
- Git
- PSQL
- React

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03-12-2015 , 12:50 PM

#17124

jjshabado

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Originally Posted by candybar

Both of my nominations Microsoft SSRS and Rogers cable guide were horrendous by any reasonable standard.

There were a lot of stupid nominations though:

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Originally Posted by jjshabado

Oracle blows in a lot of ways, but its pretty amazing in some other ones. I don't think it deserves a spot in the Software Hall of Shame.

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Originally Posted by jjshabado

WTF, Facebook isn't even close to a software hall of shame. This thread should go in the "software hall of shames" hall of shame.