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<pre wrap="">Anne Wilson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wednesday 02 December 2009 10:42:39 Dale wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Maybe not, if you set KDE4 to lose all the eye candy. I have booted some
Live Linux CDs with KDE4 on my 4+ year old Celeron laptop (stuck with
the old Intel 8xx series video hardware) and the video hardware handles
it fine if the eye candy is either turned off or very conservatively set.
LXDE runs very well on the old hardware. So does Fluxbox.
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<pre wrap="">Yea but I would leave all the eye candy turned on most likely. I sort
of like the eye candy stuff, as long as it works.
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<pre wrap="">My laptop is 4.5 years old. I can use some desktop effects, but realistically
I have to limit myself to a few, not switch on everything in sight :-) As
long as I do that it's perfectly usable for all normal work.
Anne
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<pre wrap="">I'm on a desktop which does give me a lot more options. I can upgrade
my video card and stuff to "improve" the speed. I think my CPU and ram
will be fine but a faster video card would help, although what I have is
not really bad tho.
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How very Microsoftish KDE has become that we've adopted the standard MS
performance solution: "Things too slow - just upgrade your hardware!" ;-)
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<pre wrap="">My current rig is a AMD 2500+ with 2Gbs of ram sitting on a Abit NF7
v2.0 mobo. I have a Nvidia FX-5200 with 128Mb of ram for a video card.
I have two older IDE drives and one SATA drive that is for data, movies
and such as that.
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You have more power sitting in that one machine than I have COMBINED on
three of my machines.
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<pre wrap="">It's about 5 or 6 years old but it still works. I hope to keep it
working for a lot longer tho. May move it to the closet when I get me a
new rig built.
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A friend of mine has asked me when I'm getting a quad core machine with
8GB of RAM. I won't have the money for that until that kind of hardware
has become low-end hardware. I like doing very large panoramic photos
for fun, and would really rather have my computer spending its memory on
processing my photo, not throwing around eye candy.
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Well, my machine does OK but I think the video card is getting old and
needs a update. I have already had to replace the heat sink on it
twice. I put a fancy copper thing on it last time. It is holding up
pretty good so far. <br>
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I'm hoping that in the end, after a few upgrades, that the new build
will have 12Gbs of ram, maybe 16Gbs. I sort of have a mobo picked and
it maxes out at 16Gbs. I'm going to try my best to put in sticks so
that I can max that out without wasting memory sticks. When I get it
up pretty high on memory, I plan to mount some things in memory instead
of on the hard drive. For Gentoo, /var/tmp is a good one and there is
another that I can't recall. I read that it speeds up compiles hugely
since it is done in memory instead of on the drive. I hope to get to
16Gbs at some point tho.<br>
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I always shop by getting that sweet spot that is a couple notches lower
than the top. I think the fastest CPU I could get was a 2800 or 3000
when I built my current rig. I got a couple notches below that and
saved a good bit of cash for really not a lot of loss on power. You
can't really tell the difference between a 2500 and a 2800. It's not
that much.<br>
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Panoramic pics is something I do as well. I have some of my neighbors
houses, my garden and one of a sunrise. The sunrise looks OK but I
want to do it again. I needed to wait about another 10 minutes or so
before taking the pics. I usually take at least 8 pics and sometimes
as much as 20 to make a single panoramic image. They are cool to look
at.<br>
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I wonder if Hugin runs on Fluxbox? I bet it does. One could always
log into Fluxbox and do the pics then go back to KDE. That is a lot of
hassle tho huh?<br>
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Dale<br>
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:-) :-) <br>
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