<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#330033">In response to the question, what dogs a box down, that otherwise should have zippy performance:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#330033">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#330033">* Slow HDD (5400 rpm, or gasp... 4200 rpm?) </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#330033">
* Failing HDD (one that has a lot of bad places marked, so the drive is constantly hunting around for places to put things)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#330033">
* Memory - but most of it shared with graphics card? Perhaps it's failing, and spending time doing error correcting? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#330033">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#330033">Those are things I'd look at, but I don't know how to quantify the "perceived" slowness problem.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Rick Troth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmt@casita.net" target="_blank">rmt@casita.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 12/10/2013 04:43 PM, Angelo McComis
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51)">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...</div>
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Thanks.<br>
So I'm back (mostly) to where I was before.<br>
<br>
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?<br>
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If it weren't for decent performance from this other (older) VAIO, a
family hand-me-down, I'd write off the whole brand.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-- R; <><<br>
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