On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Lamar Owen <lo...@pari.edu> wrote:
>
>> > You know, I don't exactly agree with that. The D600 (and D610) are still
>> > relatively useful laptops that, with the right desktop environment, can
>> > perform quite well, especially with the 2.0GHz Pentium M and 2GB of RAM
>> Ummm, no. I had a D610 and now have an already-aging D630 with a Core
>> 2 Duo. There's a big difference, and of course the D630 can run
>> VMware with 64-bit guests.
>
> I have benchmarked a Dell Inspiron 640m with a 2.0GHz Core2Duo with 2GB of
> RAM against a Dell Latitude D610 with a 2.0GHz Pentium M with 2GB of RAM,
> using the same performing hard drive (as the D610 uses PATA, and the 640m
> uses SATA, I had to settle for 'same performance' and not 'identical drives')
> with the exact same OS (I literally cloned the 100GB drive in the D610 to a
> 100GB in the 640m and ran the same image) and found minimal performance
> differences in terms of responsiveness in normal use, doing one thing at a
> time. It's only when doing multiple things, or doing multithreaded things,
> that the Core2Duo pulls away.
OK, but who just runs a single process? And 2GB RAM is kind of
minimal - I like lots of disk buffer. If you don't have things in
cache, your 'responsiveness in normal use' is going to be dominated by
disk waits.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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