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NVIDIA Tegra 3 Makes For Fast Ubuntu On ARM

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Here are the first set of Phoronix.com benchmarks of the quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3. Needless to say, four Cortex-A9s combined with NVIDIA graphics leads to a fairly fast ARMv7 experience when running Ubuntu Linux...

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Comments (6)

That counts as news? A bloated desktop runs quickly on powerful hardware? Gee, surprising.

How about they design it to run quickly on SLOW hardware - then it will be fast by default when you put it behind something powerful.

E clips along on my 800mhz single core ARM netbook with no complaints. I'm afraid to see how slow Gnome3/Unity would run on it after seeing how much of a dog Gnome 2 is on the little guy xD

~Jeff
@jeff --

Go to your room.

We will have no reality in this forum, young man.
Jeff,

I run Mint cinnamon on a 1.2mhz intel and it runs very nicely if you want that datapoint ;-)

Quoting:runs very nicely


where does fit, just above , or, below runs quite fast.
Several days ago, I read that Mint Cinnamon is "sweet." ;)

I wonder what speed that is.
Traceyanne,

It runs as well as gnome 2 and xfce. Compared to a beefy cpu (intel 2.5mhz) I see little slowdown.

Bob,

Sweet!

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