Oh please. It doesn't take an engineer to know it's rubbish software, just like it doesn't take an automobile engineer to say that a car is rubbish.
That's not what you said, you said it leaked memory. That would be like a layman trying to claim the default lift in the CAM grind on the Ecotec engine is insufficient in a high RPM scenario where performance is what matters, and then claiming the Cobalt is a rubbish car because of it. I'd bet the car engineer would roll his eyes at you too if you tried that since he knows he's not working with variable lift cams and that his cam profile is optimized for low rpm fuel efficiency.
(yes, I do dabble in the cars a bit too, but I wouldn't dare start calling cars rubbish based on such technical choices, like your claim of "huge memory leaks" when you don't even know what causes a memory leak in the first place).
That's the difference between us I guess, I don't comment on things I don't understand. Next time, drop the jargon. Memory leak, I'm still laughing.
Come on now, Knight, we got your point.
BTW: Nearly all your posts I've read recently contained ranting of some sort. I mean, you usually have a point but you'd also do yourself a favour by not losing your cool every time you read something you don't like.
I never lose my cool. My manner of writing is simply direct and dry. It seems to me however that when I do prove someone wrong on something, they always try to come back saying they were right. I then always either get stuck dropping the topic all together or have to be dragged into some kind of unfinishable conversation that usually ends up all over the place.
People like netdog should just accept they can be wrong and adjust accordingly. I mean, how hard is "not using industry jargon when you don't have a clue what it actually means ?".
Look, the OP is having noise issues on his MBA because the software is rubbish in terms of its demands on the system compared to other telecomm and videocomm programs available for the Mac.
Why on earth would anyone defend Skype as being well written software? It pounds on the processor where other software software that achieves the same ends for the end-user does not, and does not cause the problems on an MBA that Skype does.
Yeesh.
It does ? (see attachment)
Seems to me 0.4% CPU and 25MB of RAM ain't that much "pounding" and "leaking".
The point is, if you're a non-programmer, you don't know what Skype went for. Maybe they went for a better compression algorithm or a more bandwidth efficient codec, both of which would sacrifice CPU cycles to make the software more efficient on lower bandwidth or higher latency links.
Other software might make the reverse choice of using a less network efficient codec scheme, making their software run smoother on the machine, but utilizing much more network ressources, making them useless for restricted network scenarios.
The point is, Fans don't blare up because of inefficient software. That's a common misconception on these forums. Fans blare up because of heat. I can make the fans come on full blast on my MBA just by running a software update if I want. I can also make them come on full blast with the machine completely idle, if I'm willing to leave the MBA on under my warmest bed sheets.
The fact that the fans come on means the laptop is cooling itself. Either you've just "pounded the CPU" or other components which raised heat or you put the computer in a spot where its passive cooling wasn't as efficient.
