Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:20:16 -0600 From: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildreth@allantgroup.com> To: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> Cc: euroABITOFJUNK@i.com.ua, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What type of hardware are you using? Message-ID: <1137615616.11930.257.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <43CE4EE3.8080506@pacific.net.sg> References: <20060112120030.4D79C16A41F@hub.freebsd.org> <1137592323.916.2.camel@localhost> <43CE4EE3.8080506@pacific.net.sg>
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On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 22:21 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > 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. Did you try the comparison with 4.x or 6.0 ? > > Erich -- Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth@allantgroup.com>
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