That 233Mhz number I gave in yesterday’s post was way off. That was some sort of bus speed that flashed by in the BIOS report. My coworker’s machine actually runs at 800Mhz, making it Pentium III-grade — a Duron, to be exact, not the Pentium II I was expecting.

Which is a good thing. Still, my coworker says it seems much faster now, with Ubuntu on it (which frightens me, because I find straight Ubuntu to be dog-slow at 1Ghz, let alone 800Mhz). How badly does Windows ME have to work to make an 800Mhz machine feel like it’s running at 233Mhz?