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Date:      Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:31:00 -0600
From:      "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildreth@allantgroup.com>
To:        ahze@ahze.net
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What type of hardware are you using?
Message-ID:  <1137004260.11930.84.camel@scotth.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <b2203fed0601110816x7cd0c887h1c20b796c5792a84@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <b2203fed0601110816x7cd0c887h1c20b796c5792a84@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 11:16 -0500, michael johnson wrote:
> 
> 
> On 1/11/06, Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth@allantgroup.com> 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?
> 
> I tend to agree 1GHz isn't enough anymore.. I have a 700MHz box 
> and it runs FreeBSD 4.8 with an old ports tree. I recommend using
> older software for older *desktop* systems.

 ...too late for me, I already have 6.0 installed :-)

> 
> 
>  
> 
>                                        Thanks,
>                                           STH
>         --
>         Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth@allantgroup.com>
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