KDE and speed

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Author: Alan Dayley
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Subject: KDE and speed
I have a 400MHz AMD at home and my KDE apps load much faster than 10 seconds.

Alan

At 06:25 PM 10/2/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Applications take about 10 seconds or more to load for me, konqueror, kmail,
>etc - and of course, StarOffice, a whapping 30-45 seconds. This must be due
>to my processor being only an AMD K6-III 400 MHZ. 1 GHZ sounds appetizing
>right now. I have about 400MB of RAM, some 256MB of swap space, and a few
>EIDE hard drives - Maxtor, Western Digital, and Quantom (with varying ns
>speeds). I have one question regarding speed - is SCSI any faster than the
>latest EIDE hard drives?