From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 16:32:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F102716A41F for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:32:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: from smtpgate1.pacific.net.sg (smtpgate1.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BD4B43D6D for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:32:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 17481 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2006 16:32:37 -0000 Received: from maxwell6.pacific.net.sg (203.120.90.212) by smtpgate1.pacific.net.sg with SMTP; 11 Jan 2006 16:32:37 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.107] ([210.24.122.211]) by maxwell6.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id <20060111163237.ZJDT16871.maxwell6.pacific.net.sg@[192.168.0.107]>; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:32:37 +0800 Message-ID: <43C5331B.1070301@pacific.net.sg> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:32:27 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: oceanare pte ltd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: shildreth@allantgroup.com References: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: What type of hardware are you using? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:32:41 -0000 Hi, Scott T. Hildreth wrote: > At home, my machine is a 1 GHZ, with 768 mb of memory. I use xfce4, > evolution, firefox, gnome-office, ...etc. It seems that with every > upgrade, the 1GHZ cpu is not enough power anymore. I use evolution I use two Athlons 1.2 GHz and have the feeling that the performance is still fine but not top. Get an SMP machine when you upgrade. It will cost more but it will feel longer fast enough to work with. The CPU time of an indivual task is pretty high compared to modern CPUs but the response time to user actions is very low as the other CPU can handle this. Erich