Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, I've been tracking this list lately with some interest since I got an old Power Mac 9500/180MP to play with one month ago. Unfortunately, I couldn't install Debian on this machine, due to some hardware problems (I think) and I don't have this

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-01 Thread Noah John
the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was: G3 500 MHz vs. i386. is about an 800-933 MHz P3 is about a 733 MHz Athlon or P4 is about a GHz celeron (celeron has no b-side cache). *however* it must be realise

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-01 Thread Bastien Nocera
Noah John wrote: the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was: G3 500 MHz vs. i386. is about an 800-933 MHz P3 is about a 733 MHz Athlon or P4 is about a GHz celeron (celeron has no b-side cache). You cer

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-01 Thread John Hughes
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 12:24, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Noah John wrote: > > the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound > > still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was: > > G3 500 MHz vs. i386. > > is about an 800-933 MHz P3 > > is about a 733 MHz At

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-01 Thread Bastien Nocera
John Hughes wrote: On Wednesday 01 August 2001 12:24, Bastien Nocera wrote: Noah John wrote: the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was: G3 500 MHz vs. i386. is about an 800-933 MHz P3 is about a 733 MH

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-02 Thread Sven
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:24:51PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Noah John wrote: > > > the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound > > still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was: > > G3 500 MHz vs. i386. > > is about an 800-933 MHz P3 > > is about a

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-02 Thread Sven
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:43:42PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > I have to second Bastien, Its right under say a celleron 300a for > > performancemaybeand thats a big maybe. That said, its still plenty huh, on what do you base this affirmation ? or do you compare it with an overclock

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-02 Thread John Hughes
On Thursday 02 August 2001 01:19, Sven wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:43:42PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > I have to second Bastien, Its right under say a celleron 300a for > > > performancemaybeand thats a big maybe. That said, its still > > > plenty > > huh, on what do you base

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-02 Thread Colin Walters
John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm, nothing truely official I guess test wise. I own a dual PII 233, > k6-266, PII300, Cell 300a(over clocked at times, but not at the moment), > Athalon 800, PIII 450, Sparc 20(dual 55mhz), U1 170. I have owned and gotten > rid of quite a few more...

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-02 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:05:44AM +0200, Sven wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:24:51PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Noah John wrote: > > > > > the ibook is definatly a good purchase. from what i gather, some sound > > > still doesn't work. However, what i really meant to say was: > > >

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-03 Thread Sven
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:00AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:05:44AM +0200, Sven wrote: > > Err, isn't that 256Ko of on die cache, like the PIII and the later athlons ? > > The PPC 750 does not have on die L2 cache, but gets almost as good > hit latency by putting th

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Sven wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:00AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > Battery tech is getting pretty good. My friend got a 1GHz PIII > > laptop with 512MB RAM, and he says the battery lasts 3-4 hours IIRC. > > I asked him how toasty it got, and he said it wasn't very

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-03 Thread Sven
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:36:05AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Sven wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:00AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > Battery tech is getting pretty good. My friend got a 1GHz PIII > > > laptop with 512MB RAM, and he says the battery lasts 3

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Sven wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:36:05AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Sven wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:00AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > > Battery tech is getting pretty good. My friend got a 1GHz PIII > > > > laptop with

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-03 Thread Sven
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:39:05PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Sven wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:36:05AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Sven wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:00AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > > > Batter

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-05 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:24:55AM +0200, Sven wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:08:00AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > Battery tech is getting pretty good. My friend got a 1GHz PIII > > laptop with 512MB RAM, and he says the battery lasts 3-4 hours IIRC. > > I asked him how toasty it got, and

Re: Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-06 Thread furball
hej, Okay. This might also be relevant for the benchmark speed compare thread we had earlier (is my celeron faster than my G3? [hint: there's more in the computer than the casse and the processor]) --- rant --- > > With the standard (small) battery (20720 mWh), it lasts about 1.5 hour. > > With