[colug-432] Intel Centrino

[Angelo McComis]

In response to the question, what dogs a box down, that otherwise should
have zippy performance:

* Slow HDD (5400 rpm, or gasp... 4200 rpm?)
* Failing HDD (one that has a lot of bad places marked, so the drive is
constantly hunting around for places to put things)
* Memory - but most of it shared with graphics card? Perhaps it's failing,
and spending time doing error correcting?

Those are things I'd look at, but I don't know how to quantify the
"perceived" slowness problem.




On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:

>  On 12/10/2013 04:43 PM, Angelo McComis wrote:
>
> Minor clarification:
>
>  According to Wikipedia, the Centrino branding formerly (originally)
> applied to the CPU / Mainboard Chipset / Wireless controller together.
>  Later did it only refer to the Wireless Controller...
>
>
> Thanks.
> So I'm back (mostly) to where I was before.
>
> But ... some digging (since Tom shared his pain) indicates that my
> daughter's VAIO has a dual-core Pentium at 1.5GHz. Doesn't sound like a
> slouch, but the thing runs dog slow. What's killing it? FSB? memory?
>
> If it weren't for decent performance from this other (older) VAIO, a
> family hand-me-down, I'd write off the whole brand.
>
> I've been burned by "bargain" processors in recent years. (Sometimes fine
> for low-load servers, but miserable for desktop use. Maybe it's the GPU
> that I should worry about?) Am learning to read-up more carefully before
> buying.
>
> Anyway ... Tom ... older releases of Fedora should run fine on Centrino.
> Want a F14 CD? I am sure I have one squirreled away. Recent Debian should
> run fine too. (And that's easier to find on the web even now.)
>
> -- R; <><
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