What type of hardware are you using?

[Erich Dollansky]

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