Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1695 mails)

[Larry Stotler <larrystotler@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Adam Tauno
Williams<awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The X21 is from late 2001;  that is ~8 years old.  It seems entirely
> reasonable to be that such a machine is going to really struggle to run
> a current desktop install.  Expecting a five year life span from a
> computer is the bench mark I hear most often.

My 390X is even older.  P3/500/512MB.  Runs just fine.  Hacked in
built in wireless.  Has a 3 hour battery and plays movies just fine.
Guess it depends on your expectations.  Sure, it's not fast, but it
works.

> Unless the drives or GPU are seriously lame I don't see why performance
> on such a  box wouldn't be entirely adequate.  Unfortunately CPU/RAM
> isn't the entire performance equation.  I've see 'older' machines
> perform pretty well while newer and [theoretically] faster machines are
> dogs.

Sorry, I used the overclocked E1200 as a comparision.  It's fast a
blazes to say the least.  Video is not an issue for me since I don't
use any kind of bling.  That machine has an nVidia 6200 only because
it doesn't have onboard.  My 390x has a Neomagiv 2.5MB VRAM chip and
my X21 has a 4MB Rage Mobility M1(Rage Pro based).

> It is also just the times.  AJAX websites and other content just require
> more horsepower - even to browse the web.  [Which is kind of the myth
> behind using Google Docs or that ilk to save old machines - it does not
> work as web applications are horribly horribly horribly inefficient].
> The benchmarking we've done in-house shows that the web browser is one
> of the most resource intensive applications people run, much more so
> than their office suite or groupware client.

Agreed.  The browser uses more RAM than anything else I use.
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