[AG-TECH] Laptops II

[Christoph Willing]

Stuart Poulton wrote:
> Many thanks to those who replied to my laptop question, in summary,
> those who replied are running on laptops of > 1.5GHz also a guide can be
> found here
> 
>   http://www.accessgrid.org/agdp/howto/ag2-0-install-pig.html
> 
> The next question, is again technical, with the arrival of Centrino,
> which seems to being adopted rapidly by most laptop suppliers comes a
> reduction in clock speed currently <1.7GHz but an increase in cache to
> 1MB. Will a 1.7GHz Centrino be able to run an AG node or is raw cpu
> speed the key ?
> 

I have AG2.1.1 installed on a Dell Precision M60 with a 1.4GHz Centrino 
(using Slackware 9.0) and it seems to run pretty well. I haven't noticed 
very much difference to some workstation setups I've been testing with 
(dual 2.4GHz with RH7.3, RH9 and Slack 9.0). Maybe there'll be a bigger 
difference in sessions with lots of participants i.e. more video streams.

chris


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