iTunes 7 is Killing my Friend's Laptop

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iTunes 7 is causing a friend's PC to grind to a halt. As one song comes to an end and the next begins, iTunes is chewing up enough resources to cause songs to stutter. We tried disabling Crossfade Playback to see if that would help. It did. Now the resource gobbling period is much shorter.

The computer is a Toshiba laptop with 512MB RAM and a 2.4 Ghz processor. The iTunes version is 7.0.1.8

Is there something else my friend can do to keep iTunes 7 from taking over his system? Or is this a good excuse for him to upgrade his laptop?

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1. Posted by: iTunes is EVIL on October 28, 2006 10:22 PM:

iTunes is EVIL. Stop using iTunes or else it will continue to take over the memory on your laptop no matter whatever you may do to try to stop it. Use Windows Media Player with other music services because iTunes is EVIL and should not be used by anyone.

2. Posted by: Aaron Landry on October 29, 2006 4:45 PM:

Funny - the previous comment says something's "evil" and suggests using a Microsoft product instead.

Either way, iTunes is becoming a bit bloated IMHO. I can't imagine running it with 512mb. I've tested it on G4s running OS X with 768mb and it's not bad but I haven't bothered to test with less... and that's without considering you're running the Windows build of it. :-/

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