On 01/08/2012 02:13 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 01/07/2012 06:40 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> What will be the performance impact on my Celeron 1.73 GHz CPU and/or >> hdd speed? > > To further add to what has been said, check if your particular CPU > supports the AES-NI instruction set which should provide some > performance boost: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set > > Of course, that is, if you choose to use the AES cipher (the default). > My laptop is 3-4 years old, no AES addon in it. And I can see only high end CPU's have them, so I will not be buying one sore several years (I also use laptop in the field, grain silos, etc so I will not buy anything that is expensive). But thanks for the info, to all of you of course. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant