Need advice
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Sat Sep 11 08:37:25 PDT 2004
Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote:
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> Considering all of that, my questions are:
> - Am I being unrealistic in choosing a machine with a 300MHz processor?
No. But a faster CPU wouldn't hurt, either.
> - If I add another 128MB of memory, should I expect to see a dramatic
> improvement?
Adding more memory is probably the most cost-effective way of improving
performance.
> - Could the graphics adapter itself be the bottleneck?
Yes. A video card with 2MB of RAM is obsolete by today's standards.
> - If I picked up a newer graphics adapter that was supported by xorg,
> would a switch to 5.x and/or xorg be expected to pick up the speed a bit?
A switch to 5.x is likely to slow things down. Switching to xorg might help a
little.
--
-Chuck
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