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Toms benches Atom against P4
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ttop,2649.html
In case anyone else ever wonder if an Atom faster than a P4. |
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Toms benches Atom against P4
On Jul 17, 1:09*am, "Jim" wrote:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ttop,2649.html In case anyone else ever wonder if an Atom faster than a P4. The mythology on one of the comp.* forums inhabited by people who really should have known better was that an 800MHz PIII was all you would ever need. Because I was in on some of the ground floor action in digital animation (a *long* time ago), I could see right away that graphics would gobble up processing power in essentially unlimited quantities. What I didn't see, before the onslaught of multi-core processors, was the relatively painless uptake of parallel processing power for for relatively routine media (audio and video) processing. Somewhere along the way, Linux acquired the same kind of bloat as Windows, so that I finally gave one of my P4 boxes away because it was just too painful to use, even for Linux. A dual core atom nettop would probably still perform acceptably--for a while. Robert. |
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Toms benches Atom against P4
Robert Myers wrote:
Somewhere along the way, Linux acquired the same kind of bloat as Windows, so that I finally gave one of my P4 boxes away because it was just too painful to use, even for Linux. A dual core atom nettop would probably still perform acceptably--for a while. Depends on what you're doing with Linux. KDE and Gnome acquired bloat (KDE tremendously so!), but if you're willing to run a less Windows-y desktop, you can still run Linux on amazingly lightweight hardware. The other problem is finding an unbloated browser. -- Nate Edel http://www.cubiclehermit.com/ preferred email | is "nate" at the | "I do have a cause, though. It's obscenity. I'm posting domain | for it." |
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Toms benches Atom against P4
On Aug 10, 4:40*pm, (Nate Edel) wrote:
Robert Myers wrote: Somewhere along the way, *Linux acquired the same kind of bloat as Windows, so that I finally gave one of my P4 boxes away because it was just too painful to use, even for Linux. *A dual core atom nettop would probably still perform acceptably--for a while. Depends on what you're doing with Linux. KDE and Gnome acquired bloat (KDE tremendously so!), but if you're willing to run a less Windows-y desktop, you can still run Linux on amazingly lightweight hardware. The other problem is finding an unbloated browser. I often use epiphany because firefox annoys me so much (it crashes frequently, among other things). There have been and there continue to be lots and lots of choices for making life easier with old hardware running linux. You can play with lxde, in addition fo xfce, or, if you want to show what a linux stud you are, you can nibble at unnecessary eye candy in gnome. If you're looking at buying a processor, though, then it's probably good to be aware that Linux has been growing like Topsy for years, and, unless you want to spend your lifetime fiddling with user interfaces rather than getting work done, you might want to consider a processor more powerful than is required by your current needs. If you're a linux stud, you don't need anyone to explain these things to you. If you're not a linux stud, though, maybe switching every common application you are used to because you can't run KDE or gnome isn't such a hot idea. Robert. |
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