On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 03:19 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Jun 22 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > Thanks for the replies, Peter and Rogério. > > You're welcome, Hans. > > > It's a P-III 1ghz, 256MB ram, so I don't want to loaded with a too heavy > > distro... > > Your notebook seems to be as powerful as my desktop and that's because I > upgraded its processor in the past weeks: it used to have a Duron 600MHz > and now I have upgraded to a Duron 1100MHz, with 256MB of PC133 RAM Rogério, a 1100mhz Duron will comfortably outperform the 1Ghz P-III desktop, and from what I hear the mobile P-III isn't quite as powerful as the desktop counterpart (coppermine, the tualatin is more powerful too). My previous machine at work was a 1ghz P-III, which was a lovely machine until lightning got the better of it for about the fourth time. This chip was running on a very nice Intel chipset based motherboard, with PC133 ram. My colleague had a cheapo crappy board with SiS chipset and a 900mhz Duron (spitfire core). In every cpu intensive task we tested (encoding video/audio, seti, ect) the duron easily outperformed the P-III - I guess the extra L1 cache helps a lot.
Anyway, I've seen over and over that a slow-ish CPU with enough memory and a fast disc won't keep you waiting for much if you don't use CPU intensive software. > (unfortunately running only at PC100 speed, as I have to underclock it to > run it stably). Dodgy memory? > I don't run any Desktop Environment. Just fluxbox (which I highly recommend > with the "Minimal" style, as it is a low resource style) and some dock > applications. I have gotten so used to KDE and the way it works, I don't really see myself using anything else. Every now and then I dive head-first into XFCE or IceWM or something similar, but what always gets me is how long it takes to start KDE or Gnome apps from there, and once I have, say Evolution and Knode open, I could just as well have been using KDE to start with... Thanks -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
