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[Marc Mertens <address@hidden>]

Hello,

  when I type in a 50 page document (almost full of mathematical formulas) 
the 
performance is good, if I however type some text at the end of the full user 
manual, you will notice  a considerable delay and I would consider the 
performance bad. Also take in account that the battery live is about 2.5 
hour. If you are really worried about performance I would consider the Sony 
ultralights but they come at a heavy price tag


Marc

On Friday 29 August 2008 13:23, Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:
> can you share your experience with TeXmacs performance on a net PC* ?
>
> What worries me is that, according to these benchmarks
>
> -
> http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/03/08/intel-atom-initial-benchmarking-da
>ta-vs-pentium-and-celeron-m-processors-before-official-release/
>
> - http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3321&p=8
>
> the atom 1.6GhZ processor is still significantly slower than a Pentium
> M Dothan at 1.73 Ghz. This was the first laptop processor with which I
> felt at ease editing TeXmacs documents.
>
> My usual test for TeXmacs speed is to open a long document (e.g. a
> full manual) and start typing at the end of a long paragraph. If the
> responsiveness is not good, then the computer is not apt for (my)
> TeXmacs use. What other benchmarks can you think of?
>
> Since the only performance intensive app I ever run on a laptop is
> TeXmacs, I wonder when will we have the first net PC that passes "the
> TeXmacs test".
>
> I would really appreciate any input on this issue of performance,
> since I am about to buy a new laptop.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Álvaro
>
> * Asus EEe PC with Celeron, or (more interesting for me) Acer Aspire
> ONE with Atom 1.6GhZ, or MSI Wind or HP mininote (Via c7).
>
>
>
>
> ? I need to write long documents. My usual performance
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:15, Stéphane Paris <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> > 2008/8/27 Marc Mertens <address@hidden>
> >
> >> Although I have done it on a eee pc 900 (bigger screen), I think it
> >> would work
> >> also on a eee pc 700. The way i did it was starting synaptic, adding
> >> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ as a packet source, did a search on
> >> texmacs
> >> and installed texmacs, texmacs-common and texmacs-extra-fonts. As a
> >> extra bonus I installed also axiom and both worked very well on my eee.
> >> Very usefull to do some math writing in a pub
> >>
> >> Marc
> >>
> >> On Wednesday 27 August 2008 14:02, Stéphane Paris wrote:
> >> > hello,
> >> > is it possible to install texmacs on a eepc700 (with a special linux
> >> > embbeded) ?
> >> > thanks in advance
> >> > stf
> >
> > Thanks for these good news.
> > stf