What type of hardware are you using?

[Scott T. Hildreth]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 22:21 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Eugene Rogoza wrote:
> > 
> > I am using Dell Inspiron 700m laptop
> > (http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/entnb_700m?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn)
> > 
> > I have both FreeBSD 6.0/GNOME 2.12 and Windows XP on the same machine.
> > Should say that Windows works way faster.
> 
> my experience is that XP is much faster on a single CPU notebook but the 
> situation is very different of an SMP system.
> 
> Some programs are much faster on FreeBSD while others are much faster on XP.
> 
> The general tendency is that programs start very slowly under FreeBSD 
> but respond better than Windows on an SMP machine.
> 
> I used FreeBSD 5.2 and 5.4 to compare with NT 5.0 and 5.1 on the same 
> machine.

  Did you try the comparison with 4.x or 6.0 ?

> 
> Erich
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Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth at allantgroup.com>