In the one corner we have Windows Vista, weighing in at just over 15GB with updates and backups, sans programs, and in the other corner we have Google Desktop, weighing in at just over 0.0019GB. Huh.
Now that wasn’t really fair, Google Desktop is just one program, while Windows Vista is a huge operating system, but it really shows that this time, Google is concentrating on efficiency.
Things that I’ve noticed that have improved:
1. 1.9MB download, I don’t know how big it was before, but it certainly looks small for the functionality it offers.
2. 6 second install time, now I know for certain that the time was at least 15 seconds before.
3. Indexing seems a little lighter on the hard drive now.
4. Ram usage is down a lot:
The same Ctrl-Ctrl window comes up for searches. As always, poor integration between Google Desktop and windows search is one of the big limiting factors of Google Desktop. The deskbar looks better, and its great to finally see some good gadgets for it.
The need to go to a browser to do a full search is really frustrating, and it would be really useful if they could just have done things properly and allowed email to be searched from the double-ctrl window.
Overall, much better performance and ram usage. The ram, hdd, and cpu usage are now down to levels far below the indexing service in vista. Please fix the integration, or at least give a decent non-browser search window.
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