Nicola Losito wrote:
> Chris Mauritz ha scritto:
>
>> The best thing you can do to speed things up is to bump your memory
>> up to 512mb. I suspect that will make a big difference in perceived
>> speed.
>
>
>
> I'm awfully late on the list, but I can assure that a p3 @1GHz with
> 512MB of pc133 ram works perfectly with no apparent difference with my
> centrino @1,6GHz.
>
As a point of reference, I just did 2 installs on "older hardware" that
is being repurposed for one of my young children to play on. The
configs were as follows:
single cpu P4 2.0ghz
512mb RAM
60gig maxtor ATA/133 hard disk
Nvidia Geforce 5200 video card
dual P3 850
1024mb RAM
60gig Maxtor ATA/133 hard disk
Nvidia GeForce 5200 hard disk
The hard drives were "whatever was on sale" when I walked into CompUSA
yesterday. Same for the video cards. I installed 4.0 in a desktop
configuration on both machines and without having run any benchmarks, it
certainly FEELS like the dual P3 system is a lot snappier to use.
Windows XP seemed a bit sluggish on both machines by comparison. As a
matter of fact, the dual P3 seems more responsive than my Athlon 64
3400+ Compaq notebook running WinXP. Go figure. I'll probably give my
daughter the dual P3. My wife wanted to run out and buy a Mac mini for
the kids, but I just couldn't see myself dropping $700 on that when I
had all this "extra" hardware laying about. You definitely don't need
the latest and greatest hardware to make Linux sing.
Cheers,
C
