[OT] Re: FC3 sucks. It takes up too much memory!

[Amy M]

My thoughts:

The "default" desktop version of FC3 does take more resources than a 
"freshly" installed Windows, but:

(1)  Nowadays, hardware is so cheap, 512 MB or even 1 GB RAM has become 
a norm, and it is quite difficult to find a CPU that is slower than 2 
GHz (real or normalized).  For most users, especially business users, 
resource requirement has become a largely irrelevant issue.

(2)  FC can be customized so that it can run very snappily even under 
resource-constrained devices (such as PDA or handheld), or old systems.  
Most FC users-wanna-be probably don't have any idea of how to customize 
an FC installation, but that's what consultants are for. Right?  Can 
anyone think of a business entity which does not have a service contract 
with a Windows consultant?

(3)  While Windows can be very snappy when fresh, it is notorios for 
showing gravely deteriorated performance after time, especially after 
you have installed a number of applications.  With FC, thanks largely to 
the free upgrades, its performace actually goes up with time.

Of course, Windows is OK if you don't use it to surf the internet.