Thread: How do you use multitasking in N900?
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geneven is offline geneven
2010-09-08 , 22:30
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Originally Posted by mgedmin View Post
I usually have between 1 and 3 apps. I'd use more occasionally, but the N900 is a bit memory-starved and gets painfully slow if I open too many of them, so I got into the habit of closing one of the three running apps before opening a new one.

I guess the apps I use are more memory hungry than average (FBReader, xterm with vim editing a large'ish text file, and especially the web browser).
The above is typical of what I have open, but I don't think of FBReader or xterm with vim (also what I often use) as multitasking. I wouldn't care if they swapped to disk, as long as they were ready when I got back to them.

This is what confuses me about this whole topic. Much of the stuff mentioned in the context of multitasking isn't doing anything when it's not in the active window.
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