What type of hardware are you using?

[michael johnson]

On 1/11/06, Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth at allantgroup.com> 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
> at work, but I am trying Thunderbird at home now.  The new evolution
> is too slow on my home server.  Thunderbird is better (less cpu
> intensive), but not snappy by any means.  Plus I miss some of the
> features of Evolution, but this is straying from my question.  Has
> anyone else noticed this issue or is everyone else running on faster
> processors?


I tend to agree 1GHz isn't enough anymore.. I have a 700MHz box
and it runs FreeBSD 4.8 with an old ports tree. I recommend using
older software for older *desktop* systems.




                               Thanks,
>                                   STH
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