Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:35:24 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Subject: Re: Power consumption in desktop computers Message-ID: <20031229073524.GE25848@klapaucius.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <200312271959.24684.wes@softweyr.com> References: <20031225224609.A5326@cons.org> <200312260815.38447.wes@softweyr.com> <20031226204121.A21067@cons.org> <200312271959.24684.wes@softweyr.com>
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--i3lJ51RuaGWuFYNw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003-12-27 19:59 -0800, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> wrote: > On Friday 26 December 2003 05:41 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > > I found that the requirment to run Mozilla Firebird outpaces this > > CPU. It's really too bad, if it wasn't for that thing I could happily > > run my old hardware forever. >=20 > Have you tried Opera? My laptop is a PII-300; Opera 7 runs quite nicely= =20 > and Firebird takes 3 or 4 minutes to start. There are a few things Opera= =20 > doesn't do, or doesn't do well, but I usually just avoid those (flash,=20 > for instance.) KDE apps also run just fine on this old, slow hardware. I second the Opera 7 recommendation; I run it on my P2-400 laptop and have grown used to its speed and versatility. Running the Linux Opera binary allows the flashplayer to be used; in Opera 7 this works quite well. As can be expected, the Flash apps suck CPU but at least the Flash navigation menus should be usable. The Acrobat and Real plugins also work with linux-opera. Opera's session management is unmatched as well; it's another must-have browser feature now that I've experienced it. Greg --=20 Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:gsutter@zer0.org "You uudecode it." http://zer0.org/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" --i3lJ51RuaGWuFYNw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE/79k8IBUx1YRd/t0RAu+mAJwKEPo3MRU/kIwSFBTgwn91OEogCQCdFTJf 4iVFyqU47QyINr6ATutqbVI= =8/A1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i3lJ51RuaGWuFYNw--
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