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Your Pentium 4 is "3 to 4 times faster". I think I even saw some side-by-side numbers where yours is close to FIVE times faster.
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Today is the first time that I've ever ran Speedometer 2.1 scores on this POS. Single-digit scores!
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Test just completed. 32 minutes and some odd seconds.
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MyPal 68
NotHereToPlayGames replied to Jody Thornton's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Same here. This POS is generally only used as an "email/text notification tool". When the notification arrives, I use the non-pos computers to read/respond. This Acer Aspire One really is the biggest waste of money I've ever spent! It was a $250 Christmas Special fourteen years ago! It got used a month or two then landed in a desk drawer until just a few months ago when a different laptop officially died. So this POS is essentially "brand new" and finally at least being used for something. But it really is a gigantic POS and a colossal waste of money. But I guess it isn't really if I take that $250 initial cost and divide it out by the number of months over its lifetime (which should be another DECADE since it's JUST NOW really starting to get USED). -
So are you going to fill in a "zero" for the failed tests? Or just geomean a smaller subset?
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Something tells me that this estimate ALONE reveals a good "comparison" between computers! I'll have a score in 34 minutes, starting "now". But something also tells me that if this is "estimated" at 34 minutes, it's going to be much MUCH worse than that!
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MyPal 68
NotHereToPlayGames replied to Jody Thornton's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Acer Aspire One, Win XP x86, 1.0 GB RAM, Intel Atom N450 - Serpent52 - RAM with two extensions and no tabs loaded == 136.62 MB Speedometer 2.1 score (wow is it utterly boring waiting for it to complete!) == 3.45 (yep, "gut feeling" already knew how ssllloooww this POS is, it's always nice to get quantifiable confirmation) Holy H#LL - lowest score I have ever seen !!! Mypay68 (first ever ran on this Acer POS) - RAM with one extension and no tabs loaded before rebasing == 310.57 MB RAM with one extension and no tabs loaded after rebasing == 119.88 MB Speedometer 2.1 score (still boring but "gut feeling" already can foresee a better score) == 7.71 (nothing to "write home about", but yeah, even "gut feeling" can tell you that Mypay68 is "twice as fast" as Serpent52 on this Acer POS) -
MyPal 68
NotHereToPlayGames replied to Jody Thornton's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
That is in-process today. This particular Acer Aspire One POS sits in a dark dusty corner of a mini-server room and is very difficult to get to. I have it moved to a more-accessible location and will be comparing/contrasting Serpent52 and rebased Mypal68. It is also undergoing some benchmark testing just to prove to the masses how SSLLLOOOWW this Acer Aspire One POS really is. -
Same VM with only 512 MB RAM. Basically the CPU score is plus or minus 50 or so. Will run real hardware later.
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I intend to later today.
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My VM score with 1 GB RAM. Seems not all tests will run in a VM.
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Noted. I'm hoping to have real-hardware scores later today.
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So it doesn't actually SHOW the score until you SUBMIT? If that's the case, my VM-trial probably did work, but then I got to the same area where AstroSkipper got to?
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Not "only" Win7 Starter. Mine is LEGIT AND LEGAL. Not a "counterfeit". And it came with XP pre-installed. Maybe not in YOUR country, but that's not my problem, lol. Google/Bing/Duck for "acer aspire one windows xp". These XP models are all over the place.
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No! My model pre-dates the "D255". Mine was a Walmart Christmas Special in 2010. Wouldn't be the first time that Walmart supply chain created something "special".
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Looking forward to it. Seems everybody is waiting for ME to post my results first. Will take some time. This isn't my "only hobby", lol.
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My Acer Aspire One POS (my name for it) CAME WITH XP PRE-INSTALLED. That qualifies this POS as from "XP Era" by ANYBODY'S "definition". It was probably Christmas time frame 2010. I'd have to pull up my Quicken archives to confirm.
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Found this to be SPOT ON! From here.
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Good news! And bad news. Good == My Acer Aspire is the Atom N450 and not the N270. Bad == It's only 1.0 GB RAM. But sure, for the sake of this one-on-one, I still am inclined to believe that ANY Pentium 4, regardless of RAM type, is better than this POS. Remember, CPU manufacturers were always increasing clock speeds until they found more efficient ways of doing things. It's not like two 1.0 GHz cores is "equal to" one 2.0 GHz single-core. It doesn't work that way. Hyper-threading has its pros and cons. Found this to be an interesting read -- https://superuser.com/questions/1166529/performance-impact-of-hyper-threading So feel free to pull a 512 out of that box of yours and get test scores with only 1.0 GB RAM.
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While that may be, try posting similar for XP (also abandoned by its creator and used worldwide on old systems "for free") and see what the MSFN Moderators have to say.
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Will be tomorrow or Sunday before I can run on "real hardware" (Acer Aspire One with XP x86).
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Ugh! All my results are BLANK. Says I must select System Tests and they ARE selected. Appears to be VM related. UNFORTUNATE. As I really really really hate hate hate installing software on any computer without testing inside a VM first. Modus Operandi.
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Technically, we just violated MSFN Forum Rules. But we probably just toed-the-line and are fine "in this scenario".