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