Am Dienstag, 14. August 2012, 01:18:20 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:20:04AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Am Montag, 13. August 2012, 20:55:23 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > > > Hey there > > > > > > As I mentioned in an earlier thread, I switched from 32 to 64 bit after > > > some convinction work done by the ML and a friend. In order to justify > > > the switch for myself, I made some performance comparisons. > > > > > > So, in case anyone is interested, here are my results. > > > > > > The only thing I don't really like is of course the increased RAM usage. > > > While the old installation took 400 MB of RAM after Login to KDE > > > (Akonadi is a hog), it now takes 500. The memory meter now stands > > > always at least at 50% (3 GB available). I will have to tune down > > > multitasking a bit. > > > > > > [major snippage] > > > > so all in all you got performance improvements you had to spend several > > hundred of dollars for just through recompiling. Should give you food for > > thought. > > I don't understand that sentence. Where did I spend 100s of $$?
you didn't. You got the equivalent of a major cpu/mobo/ram upgrade in performance improvements - for free. > > > Oh and the ram? Ram is cheap. Get yourseld 8gb. Costs as much as a good > > lunch. > Nah, I won't upgrade this laptop anymore. It's 6 years old, the heatpipe is > worn out, so I can't go full-power anymore, the backlight is getting weaker > and the keyboard is falling apart. I don't have too little RAM, I just > don't have that much by today's standard. (It came shipped with 1 Gig > BTW). > > I'm gonna build me a nice i5-based minitower once I can afford it. *dream* > > What a pity though -- you just don't get 1400x1050 laptops anymore these > days (or any 4:3 laptops for that matter). > > > Or a couple of beers on friday night. > > I don't drink beer. ;-p -- #163933
