[ale] my laptop

[jeff hubbs]

Stephen Turner wrote:

> now i wonder, how well do you think my p133 3 gig 40
> mb ram laptop would fair against one of thier 733
> servers with 512 ram  running win2k if mine had linux?
> :) im thinking of bringing it in to compare :-p as in
> try to convince them to use linux

Not too well.  The slow hard drive in the laptop is going to hamstring 
you.  The best you can hope for is to show "acceptable" performance in 
some usable context.  Better not run KDE or Gnome; I run KDE on a dual 
P/133 with 96MB RAM and it (KDE) is a dog on there.

- Jeff


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