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Re:I like Gnome Shell by Thagor on Sunday November 11, 2012 @04:39PM (#4770675)
I have no graphic card, and just an old i5 from 2011. It doesn't eat much of my computer power. For a light processor maybe, but I can't talk about that.
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Re:I like Gnome Shell by aortega on Sunday November 11, 2012 @04:47PM (#4770693)
Old i5 from 2011, I hope you are trolling me.

You know just how hugely powerful an i5 processor is? the "no graphics card" that you actually have inside your CPU is more powerful than the latest gamer graphics card from 5 years ago. And consumes a lot of power too.

Gnome 2 ran quite fast on a 500 Mhz ARMv5, 200 milliWatts idle. Yes, it is a niche application, but it shows just how much hardware (and batteries!) Gnome 3 needs.

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Re:I like Gnome Shell by jamesgeck0 on Sunday November 11, 2012 @05:10PM (#4770747)
Your original post compared Gnome 3's performance to Windows 7. Windows RT is even snappier than Windows 7, and I doubt it'd be performant at all on the machine you mention.
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