It's about 5-6 years old laptop
yup, it's only using 9 mb at the moment, which is fine, but it was at 30 mb earlier though (perhaps when it was doing the thrashing?).
I have 512 Mb RAM, and for a background service 70mb (or even 30mb) is a significant amount.
I realise most tech people (like, everybody here) will have a good machine. But the general public, no. There's a huge amount of people - casual internet users, non game players, who don't bother to upgrade their PC until it dies. And poor people, like me
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But still, all these are people who use cash in the real world, and I think would benefit from Bitcoin.
So, I'm not raising this issue just for myself - I think if Bitcoin is to really take off it needs every possible drawback ironed out.
Normally I wouldn't bother coming to a forum to complain about something as trivial as this. I guess most file sharing software probably is far more bloated. But this bitcoin seems potentially far more important + useful than anything like that. It's not like a computer game, an unnecessary software you can go without, that we can just say "upgrade your PC if you want to use it".
[maybe this topic would be better off moved to the development forum? I really think this is as important as any technical issues]