Re: [Sheflug] Re: Open Office

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

I can top that: my laptop (P120, 24Mb) is running Helix GNOME. Lovely jubbly
;)

BTW, everyone know it, I'm going to say it: MHz has pretty much bobbins to
do with "speed". MHz is just the guide to which radio stations the PC will
interfere with. It's a little known fact that Pentium 666MHz machines (when
they came out) were uprated by 1MHz to 667Mhz so that the 95.2MHz band
(Radio Sheffield) would be free from interference*

Ta,

Alex.


> I would guess that 400Mhz would be about average, given that 500Mhz+ has
> only been around for about 18 months. There are still large numbers of
> Pentium 166 (and lower) in use in businesses - I know of a large office
> which recently had almost all it's Pentium 60 & 75 pcs replaced just 3
> weeks ago. Most of the PCs at a VERY large consultancy in Rotherham are
> Pentium 233s or less, and that's a lot of pcs.
>
> > > A 400MHz box is not slow ... it's about the average speed of a PC
these days,
> > > I believe.
> > Average speed for a PC these days is 600 to 700MHz. Even that's slow
> > for a PC.  The latest Christmas presents for little Johnny will be at
> > least 1Ghz in cpu speed.  Lots of bogomips there :)





*yes, complete rubbish, i made it up...

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