Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:21:23 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: euroABITOFJUNK@i.com.ua Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What type of hardware are you using? Message-ID: <43CE4EE3.8080506@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <1137592323.916.2.camel@localhost> References: <20060112120030.4D79C16A41F@hub.freebsd.org> <1137592323.916.2.camel@localhost>
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Hi, Eugene Rogoza wrote: > > I am using Dell Inspiron 700m laptop > (http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/entnb_700m?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn) > > I have both FreeBSD 6.0/GNOME 2.12 and Windows XP on the same machine. > Should say that Windows works way faster. my experience is that XP is much faster on a single CPU notebook but the situation is very different of an SMP system. Some programs are much faster on FreeBSD while others are much faster on XP. The general tendency is that programs start very slowly under FreeBSD but respond better than Windows on an SMP machine. I used FreeBSD 5.2 and 5.4 to compare with NT 5.0 and 5.1 on the same machine. Erich
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