From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 14:48:46 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 D77D116A41F for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:48:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shildret@scotth.emsphone.com) Received: from scotth.emsphone.com (scotth.emsphone.com [199.67.51.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE88743D48 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:48:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shildret@scotth.emsphone.com) Received: from scotth.emsphone.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0CEmiTs058826 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:48:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from shildret@scotth.emsphone.com) Received: (from shildret@localhost) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id k0CEmi88058825 for gnome@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:48:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from shildret@scotth.emsphone.com) From: "Scott T. Hildreth" To: FreeBSD GNOME Users In-Reply-To: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> References: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:48:44 -0600 Message-Id: <1137077324.11930.99.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: 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 14:48:47 -0000 Thanks to all that have replied. I found it interesting to see what others are using for desktops, software & hardware. STH On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 09:53 -0600, 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 > at work, but I am trying Thunderbird at home now. The new evolution > is too slow on my home server. Thunderbird is better (less cpu > intensive), but not snappy by any means. Plus I miss some of the > features of Evolution, but this is straying from my question. Has > anyone else noticed this issue or is everyone else running on faster > processors? > > Thanks, > STH -- Scott T. Hildreth