Finally got myself back home, and I didn’t manage to get my old laptop as my sister took it somewhere and I’m going to get it back a few days later. Anyway, tested Kubuntu so far, I’m going to write something about it sooner or later. But let’s go to what I’ve got here…

Remember this installation screen? Yes, it’s Windows 98. I can’t believe I still have the installation CD at home, so I took the change to play a bit on the computer. Imagine Windows 98 in Pentium 4 2.40GHz 256MB RAM. The performance was tremendous, every single move was just smooth. Well, didn’t manage to store the screen shots, as I need some kind of USB device driver whenever I plugged in my thumb drive. Neh… I don’t have any driver for my thumb drive, and I’m out of diskette (Damn man, do I sound 90’s?).

Another time, I re-install Windows XP, due to lack of protection it has. Honestly, installing Windows XP doesn’t required too much time, but only the drivers need a little time. Especially when I need to look for all the CDs, however, Windows XP shock me a bit with the fast installed graphic card of this computer. It run NVidia GeForce 4, and Windows XP manage to install it by itself without the need of driver CD. Good improvement. But, I do really agree if Microsoft ever thought of install all kind of drivers from cameras to printers to webcams and etc like Apple Mac did, I’m sure Windows can become an out-of-box software too. Anyone knows does Windows Vista has this feature?

Camino, another friendly-user browser for Mac user, built somewhat similar to Safari, the default browser of Mac OS X. Anyway, since Peter told me that it’s a good browser, so I’d checked it out and test it out in the same times. After a few days of using Camino, well, I’m afraid to say, I’m loving it At the same time, I got frustrated with it as well. Now just compare some part of them that I notice very different..

The speed, loading speed.
Undeniable, Safari load very fast, as promised on Apple site that it’s the fastest browser in the whole wide world, and it really deliver the promise. Loading this page took like 15 seconds in Safari, but in Camino, it’s more than a minute. I’m sure it’s not the browser fault, but the blogger template fault. Well, not sure why, but I have no trouble loading others pages as long as it’s not with blogger. Most of the time I read blog around the country, but those who hosted under *BlogSpot will have this slow loading problem. At the end of the day, all I want is something that is fast for me to view the page, not to blame whose fault it is.

Interface.

The only different is the buttons, and the rest will be acting the same. This is what I like about Camino, the great button design. It’s somewhat Mozilla FireFox design though, but nonetheless, it keeps me from pushing it LOL. Well, at least it doesn’t look that dull when I’m on a dull site, if you understand what I’m saying. While Safari makes it look professional and non-kidding-able, where everything was professionally designed.

Loading indicate.

In Camino, there is no signal on loading page or opened page. I got frustrated espeically when I’, opening this page sometimes. All the while I thought Camino has fully opened the page but when I open the tab, it showing a white page, this happen many times on me in one day. While Safari has the little indication where I know if it has loaded the page or not.

Memory Consume.
As I mentioned on the previous post. Safari has this memory leaking problem where it will took more than a 300MB of RAM each time I using it for an hour or half, this is honestly very sick for me, which will slow down the whole computer rapidly. While in Camino, it keeps less than 100MB doesn’t matter how long I’m using it. Well, the consumption of memory of Camino is same as FireFox 1.5.0.7. I rather go for FireFox 1.5.0.7 with a spell check plug in? But anyway, Safari’s memory leaking can be prevent by, restart the browser, delete caches, close it. In short, it needs break.