> Sounds like you could use a new machine. If you''re waiting for
the
> computer to do its work... then it''s not letting you do your work.
> Eclipse takes < 60 sec. on a 2.4 Ghz 2Gig ibm. (2gig is only due to 3
> MS SQL instances running... actual "available" memory to the
system is
> more like just shy of 1gig not including swapfile.)
i myself am using a pentium II machine that i bought used in 2000. i
am using it to do software development. i have been productive so far.
i believe that good software should work well on slow machines. less
than 60 sec is outrageous. it must take 2 seconds. in addition, when i
see a 100MB download that i need to do over my dialup to get eclipse
working i just go on to another site. ;-)
konstantin