Laptop-enhancing patches

[Tim Schmidt]

If anyone's interested, I have a user on a 233Mhz Intel Pentium w/
MMX...  I have more detailed specs, but here's a rough outline:

233Mhz Intel Pentium w/ MMX
Intel 430TX chipset w/ 0k L2 cache (yes, that's no L2)
Integrated 2Mb ATI graphics adapter (I'll get an lspci listing if
anyone's interested)
30Gb Maxtor UDMA-66 HD (connected to the i430TX's UDMA-33 controller)
A Lucent (Agere) PCI Winmodem

Believe it or not, this machine is being used quite effectively as a
desktop machine with a default Ubuntu install (Fedora Core 1 before
that).  I'm glad to report that Ubuntu seems snappier on the hardware,
although Mozilla Firefox is slightly slower to load and render pages
than Epiphany from FC1.  If other things like mouse, keyboard,
monitor, etc. etc. are important to anyone I can report on those as
well.

I'd be glad to test any performance / interactivity related patches on
this machine...  It tends to make small changes stand out more.

--tim
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:53:14 +1000, Jeff Waugh <jeff.waugh at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:47 +1000, Paul Drain wrote:
> > All three make a huge difference to responsiveness and lower disc
> > swapping levels on my Celeron 600Mhz desktop machine, a dual P4 3Ghz and
> > my iBook too.
> 
> Interesting. I've heard of a few people using different kernels on their
> less-chunky Ubuntu machines, because they feel (or are) faster. We
> should probably be avoiding this kind of thing. ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> - Jeff
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