On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 04:48, John Watlington <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Kathy Pusztavari wrote: > >> Adorable. You indeed picked the best of the bunch. >> >> This may have been answered somewhere else but I'm wondering if >> SoaS is faster on other processors than on the XO1. I find the XO >> to be terribly slow. Has it been tested on the Classmate 3 - if >> so, is it fast? > > I would expect it to be faster on other processors.
I don't think the processor is the biggest factor. In my profiling, I have seen bigger impact from jffs2/nand, the graphics subsystem and the lack of swap. If you run Soas-1 on a sd card with some swap space, you will see how the XO feels much faster. Regards, Tomeu > Please remember that the XO uses the processor that gave OLPC > the most performance/power available 1.5 years ago. Technology > has changed, and we are refreshing the XO to provide more > performance at the same power level. Other netbooks are > power hogs compared to the XO! > > This probably doesn't matter to you, but in many OLPC deployments, > the amount of power consumed by the laptop is inversely related to > the amount of time a student can use their laptop per week. > > Still, as Marvin Minsky reminded me the other day, we used to have > much more responsive UIs running on processors with less than a > tenth the processing power... > > wad > >> -Kathy >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:iaep- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Lee >> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 6:40 PM >> To: iaep; [email protected]; Sugar Devel; Christian >> Marc Schmidt >> Cc: Christoph Derndorfer; wayan >> Subject: [IAEP] DC Photo Jam 2 - New batch of photos of SoaS >> running onnetbooks >> >> Following up on a request from Walter and Christian a couple weeks >> ago, I finally got a photo session going this evening to capture >> some shots of SoaS running on an Asus EeePC 701 and Intel Classmate >> 2--complete with child! An added bonus was having Sasche Silbe come >> up on Chat on the Classmate 2 while I was shooting, so I was able >> to cache some colorful Chat lines. The images are high resolution, >> reproduction quality and set to CC. If you have any problems >> retrieving from Flickr, let me know. If you are not a contact of >> mine, I will have to "Friend" you to allow access to the high rez. >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157615270454953/ >> >> Mike >> >> http://www.olpclearningclub.org >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mikelee >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
