Its time for another computer section rant..

My mom, who is not a very avid computer user. But has one to talk to me online and mabe send a email every month told me that she had to get a new version of something. Seems there was a new version of ICQ and it said she should get it so she did. Great no problems, but because I am me and want to see this before I next goto her place I hop on icq.com and check it out. I look at the nice little flash demo of the new version. Then for fun I check out the requirements for this new version..

1. Pentium II 350 MHz class CPU or faster (Not bad hard to find much that they say needs less now a days. I am sure it still would run fine on less).

2. 50 MB of disk space (this seems a little much for a chat program, but mabe they are thinking about keeping some log files and extra stuff).

3. 128 MB of available RAM (oh dear god! this has to just be what they would like you to have to keep things fast).

4. Internet Explorer 5.0 or above IE 6.0 Recommended (umm.. why should I need a browser for this?).

5. Active Internet Connection (well that was kind of a given I would hope).

6. WIN 98 Second Edition, ME, 2000, XP Supports SP2 (Great still make it for 98 and it tells me it is cool with SP2).

7. Flash 7 Recommended (Why the hell do I need this to chat).

My thoughts before seeing this thing.. Its going to be slow have way to many buttons on it that really wont stand out due to all the flash adds it keeps showing in small inline frames with small windows of IE playing them. The disk usage is going to be mostly anoyning sound effects that no one should be forced to hear for long.

I suggest gaim to anyone who is looking for a nice multiplatform multiprotocal instant messaging client.

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