From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 14:46:30 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 E7F7A16A41F for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:46:30 +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 1BEE543D46 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:46:29 +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 k0CEkSjt058822; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:46:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from shildreth@allantgroup.com) Received: (from shildret@localhost) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id k0CEkRMe058821; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:46:27 -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: <43C5CEB1.1070909@pacific.net.sg> References: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <43C5331B.1070301@pacific.net.sg> <1137004216.11930.82.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <43C5CEB1.1070909@pacific.net.sg> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:46:27 -0600 Message-Id: <1137077187.11930.96.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: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:46:31 -0000 Well, I couldn't help myself. I bought a new board and Celeron D 2.93 GHz last night. Only $60 after rebates, figured I couldn't go wrong for that price. Will put it in this weekend, that should eliminate the slowness....I hope :-). On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:36 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > Scott T. Hildreth wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:32 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > >>Get an SMP machine when you upgrade. It will cost more but it will feel > > > > Yeah, I thought about that, I may just go the cheaper route right now. > > keep the money in your wallet for the moment. I worked recently with a > Pentium IV running at something above 3 GHz. The machine felt so slow > even under low load. > > I use to upgrade since decades to leading edge hardware and keep it for > a pretty long time. This saves me some money and a lot of time on the > long term. > > I then get the itch when new hardware comes to the market. As long as > the itch does not get to bad, I stick with the old one. The current one > I got 2001. > > Erich -- Scott T. Hildreth