Here is a comparison (and an admission
):
I installed Avast on my father's computer earlier this year. That PC has an AMD Athlon CPU, 600 Mhz and 256 Mb of RAM installed. The Athlon is in the 686-class (i686) of CPU, my AMD K6-2 is in the 586-class (i586).
I am guessing that because the Athlon is an i686, I have noticed the same applications run faster, despite only having 1/2 the memory installed, than the same applications on my K6-2 system with twice the memory. In the Task Manager, both are showing the exact same processes running at startup (except for the nVIDIA and HP processes which are on my K6-2 system).
When Avast just updated at bootup of the Athlon system:
Information about current update:
Total time: 3:59
- Vps: Updated
(previous version: 080721-0, updated version: 080723-0)
Server: download93.avast.com (75.126.130.164)
Downloaded files: 6 (222.17 KB)
Download time: 3 s
was the result of the update.
That is something I could live with on my K6-2 system.