if your going to run ubuntu with emc ,i would suggest nothing less that 1.8 ghz processor , the more power you've got for a pc then the more room you have to tweak and optimize emc for top performance , in emc configs is the base period ,the lower you can make the base period the more speed you can get from emc , but if you set the base period too low the computer will freeze , the base period setting depends upon how powerfull your pc is , guys claim to run on 1 ghz or less but ive tryed it and never got near the performance ive got from the 1.8 ghz p4 i'm currently using
in my opinion ubuntu is a hog compared to windows xp
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