I really feel sorry writing this but I can't stop myself. I remember my first consulting project that I took up for a financial firm and delivered successfully using NetBeans 3.5. Boy! I just fell in love with that IDE and since then I never looked elsewhere.
I was till last month so much comfortable with the IDE that I simply can't code without it. Its like a brand of your whiskey or a coffee. You are simply addicted, no matter good or bad, you just need it. Nothing else will do.
Its a known fact that NetBeans has been a slow performer. Back then people used to run it on PIII systems with 256MB RAM (running it on a Celeron would surely be a geeky joke). More or less, we all lived with it. We ignored the bad and looked at only the good. Then came better processors and better memories and so called newer NetBeans. Features added, performance improved and the genes of a snail still remained.
For me, its enough now. I fed my Dell Latitude D610 having Pentium M processor @ 1.7gigs and 1GB RAM with NetBeans 4.0 on JSE 1.4.2_11. But that does not sound enough for it. Most of the times it behaves as if it is forced to perfom its duty. Its so damn slow that I dreaded myself to hit on the poor TFT and keyboard. Thank god! my laptop is safe.
Anyway, everyone deserves justice and a chance. I restarted my PC many a times and in case 1GB RAM and 1.7GHz isn't enough for it, I shut all the processes that were not kind of important (including my Outlook). All in vein. May be NetBeans 4 is to blame. So, I installed NetBeans 5.0 (I worked quite a lot with 4.0 earlier but still...) give it a chance. No use :(
Lets not give up. I tried uninstalling everything and downloading a fresh piece of JSE+NetBeans bundle. JSE 1.4.2_12 with NetBeans 5.0. Hoping everything should work well I loaded my projects on this latest version. No price for guessing! I wasted my time.
Now I remain with 2 assumptions and a single conclusion (at least for myself).
Either: 1. It cannot perform properly on a Pentium M processor. 2. NetBeans can no more deliver for the real life development.
If the former assumption is true then I may forgive and forget it and if later is the case, then I have only one thing to say... Altala Vista Baby!!!
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