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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 21:02:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808092102.43816.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g7koap$2qr$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Saturday 09 August 2008 20:40:20 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > Also the 7300 is a bad example - it is a very slow card.
>
> Not really.  It's at least 5 times as powerful as my old Matrox Mystique
> from the year 1995 (I think).  But the Matrox is faster with 2D.
>
> It's not the hardware that is slow.  Quire the contrary.  It's the
> drivers that are totally borked.  All I can say is stop buying NVidia
> and ATI junk.

I wanted to do that. Until I looked at my options:

Onboard Intel
1280X800

My last Dell D830 at my last job had that. It drove me psychotic. So I had a 
tough choice:

Be mostly free
Be mostly insane

No-brainer really...

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-09 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-09  7:59 [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly Alan McKinnon
2008-08-09  8:54 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-09 18:19   ` Alan McKinnon
2008-08-09 19:03     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-09 19:14       ` Alan McKinnon
2008-08-11  8:51         ` Dirk Uys
2008-08-09 11:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2008-08-09 17:02   ` Filipe Sousa
2008-08-09 17:56     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-09 18:40       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-08-09 19:02         ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-08-09 19:14         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-09 19:46       ` Filipe Sousa

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