What hardware

[William Park]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:11:35PM -0700, James Mcintosh wrote:
> What hardware does a laptop lent to me have?
> The owner says that it's a Pentium 3 with several gigabytes of RAM.
> The hardware reports to me:
> Computer:
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz 587MHz 512 MB of RAM
> 
> Does "Pentium M" mean "Pentium 3"?
> It reports two speeds:
> 1400MHz
> 587MHz
> Why?
> Is the 1400MHz for processor, and the 587MHz for RAM speed, or speed of floating point processor - or what?
> It seems to me that it has only 512 MB of RAM, rather than his stated "several gigabytes".
> Maybe his recollections are mistaken?
> I apologize for asking such a beginner's question.
> James E. McIntosh
> JamesEMcIntosh-Iimme/3Z544AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org

Pentium M is not and is better than Pentium 3.  Try running,
    cat /proc/cpuinfo
    free
-- 
William
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