On 13 Aug 2008, at 01:49, "Martin Bochnig" <mb1x at gmx.com> wrote:
>>> The T1000 is an excellent machine (at 1GHz), also for the Desktop. >> Your the only one with that view, for desktop usage I moved back to a >> netra 1405 as it "felt" faster. > > How can you know? I really would like to know, but the desktop crew are the only lot which don't like benchmarks... > > Maybe you want to say, that there exists at least one person with a > view different from mine ... ? Well I could dig through the srss lists for the posts when the T1 came out and we all ran off to get T1/2000 only to be ask by the user base to go back to what they had > > >> With t1000 at a 1gig the desktop is slow, but its slow for 1 user >> as it >> is for 20 users. > > In practice it will even be a bit slower per user, But supprising the drop was not that much. The biggest hit was being on the T1, after that there was not much difference between 1 and 20 users > > when you have #cores < #users <= #threads > such as 8<20<32 (due to misc. implementation related limitations of > the outdated T1 [see ElReg for articles with comments about > different views regarding that]). > > However, this way or that way, the T1000 makes a good "feeled" > Desktop box, too. How? > Of course it depends on what you want to do, and on how you define > "Desktop computing". If you count concurrently running 5 compiles > at once to it (hour-long stuff like Xorg, OS/Net, Qt/KDE, Gnome/JDS, > SFW), maybe while watching the most recent war propaganda news via > Flash9-plugin on www.reuters.com, editing 80 src files in a myriad > of gedit tabs etc., then you may find the T1000 being very useful > for these purposes. Not really. It was the "lag" of doing anything Ok the performance does not drop of a cliff when your doing all above, but when you find that is the same lag for one gedit on a blank desktop to the 80 tab effort. That kills of most users will to stick with it > Desktop computing: IMO the T1000 is a good choice. I guess all I can do in nod, smile and edge away
