Jonathan Wilson wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm trying to find some useful reviews comparing CPUs (hopefully a broad > selection, not just the 3 latest out of any given factory) for the average > Linux office-progam desktop user. > > Reviews that take the 2 very latest Intel and AMD DualCores and compre them > to > each other are pretty much worthless for most people - it's like comparing > apples from different sides of the same tree (or off the same branch). > > I don't care how fast a CPU runs 3D programs, Games and Video/Audio encoding. > > What runs KDE the fastest when you have all the standard office applications > running (FireFox, OpenOffice, Kontact) and SpamAssassin starts sucking the > life out of your box when Kontact checks for new mail? > > Yes, there are plenty of reviews out there, but most of them do not tell me > if > the latest Dual-Core 64-bit Whoppie runs Kcalc, emacs or apache faster than > my ailing P4 3.2 Ghz. Most of them focus on gaming, 3D, floating point > intensive Windows applications. I'm not interested in that. > So you might consider to be happy to stay with your "ailing" PIV 3,2 for a couple of more years. ;-)) Eberhard
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