What type of hardware are you using?

[Eugene Rogoza]

> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:53:53 -0600
> From: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildreth at allantgroup.com>
> Subject: What type of hardware are you using?
> To: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome at freebsd.org>
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> 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?   
> 
>                                Thanks,
>                                   STH
> -- 
> Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth at allantgroup.com>
> 

Hi,

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)

Intel Pentium-M Dothan 2.00 GHz
512 MB RAM
Intel i810 video
80GB harddisk

I have both FreeBSD 6.0/GNOME 2.12 and Windows XP on the same machine.
Should say that Windows works way faster.

On FreeBSD the heavy things are:

Evolution (very heavy, especially with spamd)
GNOME start menu (it is being "calculated" from .desktop-files, thank
god just once)
Nautilus (although I have all the previews switched off)

Firefox works tolerably (I would say a bit slower than IE in WinXP).

Eugene


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