> although I find the clock speed (2GHz) kinda underwhelming
Remember that the clock speed is not necesarely everything. AMD may be able to get more work done with those 2Ghz than a Snapdragon 800 might using similar or less energy.
Remember that the clock speed is not necesarely everything. AMD may be able to get more work done with those 2Ghz than a Snapdragon 800 might using similar or less energy.
As far as I know, x86 (P6-based) is still king in IPC.
Then, a few years later I tried to install Gentoo on it. With X. And OpenOffice.
It chugged for days.
Learning exercise
>Why not compile on a different architecture thats faster or use distcc to make a compile farm? Last times I used Gentoo I just used the packages, took no longer to install than an rpm based distribution.
Well this was 10 years ago. I was 17 or so and I didn't know about distcc. I was young, dewy-eyed, and a huge noob.
It still feels really fast if you don't use X.
I lost that poor little machine when I moved across the country; not sure where it could have ended up. Now my only "system to screw around with" is my RasPi.
Cost of software and hardware for that was £0!
I still spend most of my time in a terminal window, but it's on a machine with ~1120x as much CPU horsepower and ~1638x as much RAM. Just calculating that made me go "wow" and realize how far we've come in the last 20 years or so.