I may build a new box for the Holidays...

[Hervé Fache]

On 12/20/06, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
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> As for processors and RAM, currently I have an old AMD Athlon 1700+
> (1,47GHz, 266MHz FSB), and 768 MB of RAM. I like to play with VMWare to
> test development version of Ubuntu before replacing the previous stable
> release. This brings the machine down to its knees, and is very slow.
> This revealed that to "just work", I would need
> 1) a faster CPU
> 2) an extra CPU core
> 3) 1+ GB of RAM
>
> The Intel Core 2 duo gets excellent reviews wrt to performance, and I
> just read the other day they will soon have a revision that further
> reduces power consumption (sadly X-mas is too short notice :-/ ).
> It also is the natural choice is you went for an Intel motherboard.

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I´d like to point out that Core Duo and Core 2 Duo implement
technology to help virtualisation, so that could be an interesting
choice factor...

Hervé.