Whats the comparisons in resource usage between free utilities and retail?

[bd1886]

What is the difference in a resource intensive retail suite, and a lean and efficient package of free apps.,as far as cpu usage? Just about to do a complete substitution and don't know what to expect in terms of performance.

[law99]

( a resource intensive retail suite) & (a lean and efficient package of free apps.)
Didn't you answer your own question?

[Panama Red]

Good call law99! Keep in mind, bd1886, the security suites not only consume more resources but they tend to assume the user is "dumb as a box of rocks!" They tend to take over your pc while attempting to protect you from your own ignorance. I much prefer to run manual scans periodically than allow some massive control-freak program to run in the background "protecting" me from the great unknown.

[Cricket]

Keep in mind the security suites not only consume more resources but they tend to assume the user is "dumb as a box of rocks!" They tend to take over your pc while attempting to protect you from your own ignorance.LOL...I never thought of it like that before, but you're right Panama Red...seems the retail packages are designed for less knowledgeable users and the free programs are for more experienced users.

:) Cricket

[bd1886]

Heard that the large av providers "purchase" whole packages of applications from others and then work them into their own applications. Allusions (both hear and elsewhere) infer that they do this without doing enough work on getting rid of redundancies and inefficiencies,during integration into their own product.After your point(law99) guess it would be absolutely impossible to separate this...from the hand holding. Just an afterthought... the "die hard" open source folks use that same analogy to describe all of us Windows users. Guess it's all a matter of perspective.