Speeding up i18n

[Robert Knight]

Hi Randy,

As far as startup is concerned it doesn't make that much difference.
The biggest bottle-neck when starting the desktop is I/O and that
is not much faster on a brand new machine today that a machine that
was new 5 or even 8 or 9 years ago.  The answer to your question about
a target spec is no, not to my knowledge.  I suppose for 3D desktop
effects a sensible base-line spec would be integrated Intel graphics
(i965) since its a common chipset with open drivers.  The one spec
requirement that has changed from earlier versions of KDE is obviously
the recommended about of RAM.  In my personal experience 512MB works
but you'll get better performance with 1GB if you have a lot of stuff
running.

Regards,
Robert.

2009/2/3 Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com>:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2009 05:42 am, Chusslove Illich wrote:
>>  on my 2 GHz AMD Athlon XP machine
>> (average machine in 2004).
>
> Hi!  Thanks--this gives me an opportunity to ask a few questions that
> I've been wondering about (I may not get them answered, on the other
> hand, maybe they're even answered on a web page some place).
>
> Starting slow:
>
>   * is that really the average machine in 2004, or is that more like
> the average/typical *new* machine in 2004?
>
>   * (does anybody have any idea what the average machine is today (or
> was in 2004) "worldwide" (i.e., considering the places were (some
> people, at least) would like to target for Linux adoption?)
>
>   * does KDE have a target machine they design for?  (I mean, like,
> they expect acceptable performance (for some definition of acceptable)
> for machines with X MB of RAM, Y GHz, and Z GB of hard drive (as well
> as some spec on the video performance)?
>
> Thanks!
> Randy Kramer
> --
> I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I created a video
> instead.--with apologies to Cicero, et.al.
>