It's probably a little late to reply to this :\ I don't have an internet
connection at home these days.
System specs: (mine is also a high powered wonder machine =P)
500Mhz PIII mobile
256MB PC100 SDRAM
4MB NM256ZX GPU
On this machine, KDE 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 run quite well. Not blindingly fast but
fast enough that work on it all day every day and I have no complaints.
Kmail, Konqeuror and Kwrite all launch in around 2 sec. I have always run
Slackware on this machine. Recently I came in contact with some ~600Mhz
machines running SUSE and KDE 3.2. I was not impressed at all with the
performance, especially when compared to Mandrake 10 and Slackware 10. I
suspect your problem is SUSE specific.
I have always found KDE under Slackware to be a great environment for older
machines that have at least 256MB, as the preloading of libs make QT
applications quicker to launch under KDE than GTK applications are under
Gnome in my experience.
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