What type of hardware are you using?

[Scott T. Hildreth]

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
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Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth at allantgroup.com>