On 4 October 2012 17:04, Tony Pursell <a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: > > > On 4 October 2012 16:12, Tyler J. Wagner <ty...@tolaris.com> wrote: >> >> On 2012-10-04 16:05, Liam Proven wrote: >> > On 4 October 2012 15:54, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Both have the Pentium P6200 processor. >> >> >> > Unfortunately, Intel is rather addicted to selling cheap, crippled >> > CPUs which have been hobbled to fit a low price point by disabling >> > most of their onboard cache memory. This dramatically reduces >> > performance. >> >> Wow. Checking on that CPU, I can't believe it is still being sold: >> >> >> http://ark.intel.com/products/50176/Intel-Pentium-Processor-P6200-3M-Cache-2_13-GHz >> >> It doesn't even have VT-x! >> >> I'm sorry, Gareth, but I have no suggestions for you. Consider using Gnome >> >> 2 or XFCE. > > > In my 2006 vintage desktop I only have one of these > > http://ark.intel.com/products/27511/Intel-Pentium-D-Processor-805-2M-Cache-2_66-GHz-533-MHz-FSB > > with 2GB memory and integrated ATI Radeon Express 200 graphics and it does > run Unity 3D Ok, but AV performance has always been a bit poor.
Surely browsing whilst playing music is ok though. Almost anything should be able to cope with that. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
