That's why you care about booting times and such. There is no reason why one should boot more than once max. a day. Again, as long as the performance is better (gaming and trade execution) why the fuck your intellectual mind cares what's going under the hood? Not to mention a real trader would have 2 computers, 1 dedicated for trading (XP is just fine) and one for gaming/porn/entertainment/whatever.
the fact that W7 uses RAM more frequently makes it more efficient and faster duh... The less data that goes to the harddrive in termrs of cache etc the better the performance... really why have 6GB of RAM if you want to only have 5% of it used?
LOL here comes the younger generation the perpetual pseudo thinkers that now a days confuse tomatoes and potatoes on dinner plate when I turn off page file on Win XP, (forcing RAM storage cache) win XP still uses 140-190 mgs of RAM on idle windows Windows 7 on the other hand, uses huge ram space WITH OR WITHOUT PAGING is that clear enough bubu, is that simple enough for you to understand little bubu hey bubu are you my competition in futures market, GOD I HOPE SO
I sure hope so you are my counterpart on my trades... if you trade the way you think about computers then I'm set for life...
We should always be extra carefull when it comes to spend money on technology whatever it is going to be sotware or hardware. Recently I was looking for a new laptop 15.6 inches. Everyone tells me to get the Apple great look, great feel great everything along with a startting price of$1700 make it more than $1800 with taxes. I end up buying a Toshiba with 3g Amd Turion M500. $509. I KNOW they are not the same thing and I am well aware on how awesome the Apple brand is, but all I do is to place a few trades check emails and surf the net...so who cares ! The look on the Toshiba is nothing spectacular, but the price of $509 at Office Depot taxes included is. When it comes to tech don't buy anything more than what you really need and you'll see that you'll be happy. In the next 3 months things will start getting obsolete anyways.
Mikasa I think this is a misunderstanding about what Win 7 memory usage means. Look into "superfetch". http://www.osnews.com/story/21471/SuperFetch_How_it_Works_Myths Don't think of it as Win 7 is wasting memory, it's putting useful stuff there so you can get it faster. When other programs you are running need the memory, it gives it back. yielding RAM space is very fast.