POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Modern Linux desktops suck : Re: Modern Linux desktops suck Server Time
5 Sep 2024 01:25:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Modern Linux desktops suck  
From: Neeum Zawan
Date: 25 Nov 2009 19:28:28
Message: <4b0dcbac$1@news.povray.org>
On 11/25/09 16:02, Jim Henderson wrote:
> AMD-64 2 GHz dual core processor - not really blazingly fast by today's
> standards.  That's the desktop machine.  The Dell laptop is a single core
> (I believe) Intel 32-bit processor that runs at about 2 GHz as well.
> I've a slower laptop in the office (a Thinkpad t42p) that's slower and
> still seems to handle it OK.

	Try Hulu. Set whatever you're watching to the highest quality, and then 
switch to full screen. On my machine (P4 2.53 GHz), it plays, but it 
kind of jerks a few times a minute.

	It should give trouble on your slower machines.

	Of course, it's possible that the plugin _is_ working with your 3-D 
cards (all of them?). It's not that they don't support video cards at 
all - just that it rarely works.


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