From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 18:30:19 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 0F5EB16A41F for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:30:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) Received: from scotth.emsphone.com (scotth.emsphone.com [199.67.51.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EFE543D46 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:30:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) Received: from scotth.emsphone.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0BIUHVt054484; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:30:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) Received: (from shildret@localhost) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id k0BIUH8Y054482; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:30:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) X-Authentication-Warning: scotth.emsphone.com: shildret set sender to shildreth@allantgroup.com using -f From: "Scott T. Hildreth" To: Erich Dollansky In-Reply-To: <43C5331B.1070301@pacific.net.sg> References: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <43C5331B.1070301@pacific.net.sg> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:30:16 -0600 Message-Id: <1137004216.11930.82.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port 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 Reply-To: shildreth@allantgroup.com 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 18:30:19 -0000 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 -- Scott T. Hildreth