Back on subject of Matt pointing out these cheap PC's on offer. There is one review below the article that says something about Wine/Cedega and the PC on offer being a fast PC. Well I think not necessarily as the CPU is cheap but slow. Here's a French article comparing the C7 to a PIII apart from being a 'carbon free cpu' the C7-D does feature nothing substantially different from an Intel or AMD CPU...it is very much like the C3 and offers the same types of flaws that the C3 predecessor had: mainly a slow FPU (which does bring back memories like old AMD-K6 days). Linux and multi media applications benefit from a fast FPU so a computer featuring this type of CPU will not fly in the multimedia world and will give a poorer performance - also in Linux. So according to this article the C7 compares to a good pentium III which is very capable of DivX/mp3 playback, decoding HD material might prove to be another thing though. But it would still be a nice little machine to have in my opinion.
Back on subject of Matt pointing out these cheap PC's on offer. There is one review below the article that says something about Wine/Cedega and the PC on offer being a fast PC. Well I think not necessarily as the CPU is cheap but slow. Here's
a French article comparing the C7 to a PIII apart from being a 'carbon free cpu' the C7-D does feature nothing substantially different from an Intel or AMD CPU...it is very much like the C3 and offers the same types of flaws that the C3 predecessor had: mainly a slow FPU (which does bring back memories like old AMD-K6 days). Linux and multi media applications benefit from a fast FPU so a computer featuring this type of CPU will not fly in the multimedia world and will give a poorer performance - also in Linux. So according to this article the C7 compares to a good pentium III which is very capable of DivX/mp3 playback, decoding HD material might prove to be another thing though. But it would still be a nice little machine to have in my opinion.
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