Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:30:16 -0600 From: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildreth@allantgroup.com> To: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What type of hardware are you using? Message-ID: <1137004216.11930.82.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <43C5331B.1070301@pacific.net.sg> References: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <43C5331B.1070301@pacific.net.sg>
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On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:32 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 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.
>
Yeah, I thought about that, I may just go the cheaper route right now.
> Erich
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Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth@allantgroup.com>
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