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Originally Posted by Tandum
With 64bit systems and ram cheaper than chips, I just don't understand the term resource hog any more.
That's a term from the low powered, single core cpu days when ram was $200 a gig.
I bought 4gig of ram today for a 3.6gig quad core cpu, it cost $30 !!!!
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Hey I can remember Kobe - when RAM was $100 a MB. Building a 486 system with 8MB of RAM was prohibitively expensive!
I use Avast nowadays - if it even things one of your licenses are expired - it doesn't straight away tell you - it goes real slow. Once the licenses are correctly confirmed - it has periods when it monopolises and pretty much freezes a quad core machine (minute or two at a time on start up) then everything is back to life.
Also pays to schedule updates for 4am or some time when you are sure you'll be asleep and the PC shouldn't be working hard!