Originally posted by NickFitz
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it's easy to dismiss the memory usage as the price of progress if you are an IT contractor with a well specced machine, but it will be an issue for corporate PC users as they tend to be a bit behind the hardware upgrade curve. A lot of less computer savvy people will simply write it off as a pile of tulip when their less than 2 year old laptop that only has 2GB ram grinds to a halt, and it will grind to a halt if you are one of those people who wants or needs to use several applications at once. That covers probably 70-80% of corporate desktops. Regardless of what marvelous functionality it might have a windows web browser that is going to require the corporate world to pay for and organise mass hardware upgrades is going to lose market share rapidly IMO.
Edit: The irony is that when I first fire it up it's about 1/3rd the size and actually seems pretty snappy. It's only after a bit of use that it starts to balloon out of control.
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