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Date:      Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:30:16 -0600
From:      "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildreth@allantgroup.com>
To:        Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: What type of hardware are you using?
Message-ID:  <1137004216.11930.82.camel@scotth.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <43C5331B.1070301@pacific.net.sg>
References:  <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <43C5331B.1070301@pacific.net.sg>

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On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:32 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Scott T. Hildreth 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
> 
> I use two Athlons 1.2 GHz and have the feeling that the performance is 
> still fine but not top.
> 
> Get an SMP machine when you upgrade. It will cost more but it will feel 
> longer fast enough to work with. The CPU time of an indivual task is 
> pretty high compared to modern CPUs but the response time to user 
> actions is very low as the other CPU can handle this.
> 

  Yeah, I thought about that, I may just go the cheaper route right now.
                      
  
> Erich
-- 
Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth@allantgroup.com>



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