Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

You can't compare clock speeds across different types or revisions/generations 
of CPUs. Today's CPUs are much more efficient clock-for-clock than their 
predecessors.

See here for an explanation:

  http://yama.blogsome.com/2007/11/12/megahertz-marketing/


On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Chris Dinneen <chris.dinneen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes It was a Pentium 4. But the Clock speed on the EeePC is only ~900MHz.
>
> martin fricke wrote:
> > Do you mean a Pentium 4 2.4GHz? They were released to the market at
> > least 5 years ago (up to 6 years) so are old technology. Still seems
> > like good performance from a mini notebook though.
> >
> >
> > -----------
> > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:30:10 +1000, Chris Dinneen
> >
> > <chris.dinneen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I work in a Physics Department at a University and I helped one of the
> >> Grad students modify his Eee PC so we could install mathematica (the
> >> default partition scheme is less than helpful). As a comparison of
> >> speed,  our 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium Desktop took 3 times longer to
> >> calculate a series of 5 complicated integrals as the EeePC. So the thing
> >> certainly doesn't lack speed.



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