How Slow is KDE?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006, A. Khattri wrote:
>On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> I gave my wife a Mac Mini for her birthday in September to replace her old
>> Windows 98 machine.  She didn't even see the Mini sitting on top of the
>> Win98 machine at first.  Now she doesn't have to listen to me piss and moan
>> every time I touch her Win98 machine.
>
>Hmm.. maybe I should replace my wife's aging G3 with a Mac Mini (her b'day
>is in July ;-)
>
>> The Macs work fine,
>
>Not only do they work well, but as you say, no more gnashing of teeth over
>Windoze annoyances... I routinely recommend Macs to dumb Windoze users
>(usually after Ive cleaned umpteen virii and spyware programs off their
>machine!).
>
>> connected to a ps/2 KVM switch, using a USB->PS/2
>> Adapter for the keyboard and mouse.
>
>What make/brand are you using?

The one in my office is an older Belkin, and the one in my wife's a current
Belkin 4 port.  Mine cost about $100 without cables, and hers about $80 at
Fry's with cables.  I tried the two-port Belkin with cables, but it
wouldn't select properly with the keyboard commands.

The one in my office is connected to a 21in Nokia 445PRO monitor, and I
generally have it at 1280x1024 as that's about as high a resolution as I
can comfortably read an xterm at the largest font settings.

BTW:  If you go into System Preferences->Universal Access and turn Zoom on,
you can zoom in using the ALT-WIN+ and ALT-WIN- with the ALT and WIN keys
to the right of the space bar.  Either ALT key works like the standard
Apple Option key (I haven't found any key on my old Microsoft ``Natural''
keyboard that ejects the DVD.

Bill
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