Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 11:37 -0700, John Reiser wrote: > On 05/03/2012 07:05 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: > > My personal opinion is that Core and up are pretty tolerable and anything > > less kind of isn't but also already kind of wasn't. But I no longer really > > have any idea whether my threshold

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-04 Thread John Reiser
On 05/03/2012 07:05 AM, Adam Jackson wrote: > My personal opinion is that Core and up are pretty tolerable and anything > less kind of isn't but also already kind of wasn't. But I no longer really > have any idea whether my threshold for acceptable interactivity matches that > of anyone else.

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 20:27 +0300, cornel panceac wrote: > :D > anyway, i'd say that indeed, starting with a default (sftware > rendering) and offering the user the chance to choose (a la fallback > graphics) could be a win-win situation. everyone can select for its > own config, whatever fits bes

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-04 Thread Bodhi Zazen
May 4, 2012 11:27:54 AM Subject: Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render 2012/5/4 Al Dunsmuir < al.dunsm...@sympatico.ca > On Thursday, May 3, 2012, 4:01:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:41 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote: >> On Thursday, May 3, 2012, 1:22:29 PM,

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-04 Thread cornel panceac
2012/5/4 Al Dunsmuir > On Thursday, May 3, 2012, 4:01:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:41 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote: > >> On Thursday, May 3, 2012, 1:22:29 PM, Adam Pribyl wrote: > >> > On Thu, 3 May 2012, Adam Jackson wrote: > >> >> On 5/3/12 7:36 AM, Adam Williamson wro

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-03 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Thursday, May 3, 2012, 4:01:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:41 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote: >> On Thursday, May 3, 2012, 1:22:29 PM, Adam Pribyl wrote: >> > On Thu, 3 May 2012, Adam Jackson wrote: >> >> On 5/3/12 7:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> The world is full of A

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:41 -0400, Al Dunsmuir wrote: > On Thursday, May 3, 2012, 1:22:29 PM, Adam Pribyl wrote: > > On Thu, 3 May 2012, Adam Jackson wrote: > >> On 5/3/12 7:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > The world is full of Adams, it appears! If certain religions are to be believed, at one p

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-03 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Thursday, May 3, 2012, 1:22:29 PM, Adam Pribyl wrote: > On Thu, 3 May 2012, Adam Jackson wrote: >> On 5/3/12 7:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: The world is full of Adams, it appears! >>> On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:21 +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote: While I consider the latest development on gma500,

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-03 Thread Adam Pribyl
On Thu, 3 May 2012, Bodhi Zazen wrote: Just thought I would weigh in on this issue ... I use the gma500 and, yes g3 is a bit slow, but performance has been improving. I follow your blog closely, I have 1.33GHz Atom and compared to fallback it is a big difference. With fallback it flies.

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-03 Thread Adam Pribyl
On Thu, 3 May 2012, Adam Jackson wrote: On 5/3/12 7:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:21 +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote: While I consider the latest development on gma500, present in many Atom base netbooks, a great success and would like to say thank you to developer(s), When

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-03 Thread Al Dunsmuir
On Thursday, May 3, 2012, 12:52:13 PM, Adam wrote: > On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:05 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: >> So if we want to blacklist low performers, okay, that's a thing we can >> do I suppose. Where do we draw the line? > 'anything Atom is slow as hell' would be an obvious win, I suspect. I

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:05 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > So if we want to blacklist low performers, okay, that's a thing we can > do I suppose. Where do we draw the line? 'anything Atom is slow as hell' would be an obvious win, I suspect. If your baseline of acceptable performance is 'Core and

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-03 Thread Bodhi Zazen
Just thought I would weigh in on this issue ... I use the gma500 and, yes g3 is a bit slow, but performance has been improving. It is on my to do list to take one of the F17 daily spins for a test drive. If you find g3 slow, use another window manager, but I sort of like G3 on my netbook ;) In

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-03 Thread Adam Jackson
On 5/3/12 7:36 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:21 +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote: While I consider the latest development on gma500, present in many Atom base netbooks, a great success and would like to say thank you to developer(s), When you say "latest development", what exactl

Re: GMA500 vs. G3 software render

2012-05-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:21 +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote: > While I consider the latest development on gma500, present in many Atom > base netbooks, a great success and would like to say thank you to > developer(s), G3 software render negates all this for gnome shell as this > is extremely slow on A