XO-1.5 follow-on impression

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 17:52, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 16:44, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
>> Was able to use the XO-1.5 (os32) at another location, connected without a
>> proxy.  My opinion - this is a quite nice machine.
>>
>> The principal user-perception experience where improvement would still be
>> welcome is video support.  Changes to the screen (e.g., show/hide Frame) are
>> not being done "smoothly".
>
> If there's no way in hand to further improve rendering performance,
> then maybe using composition would be a possibility with the extra
> memory we have?

And btw, if someone would like to spend some time seeing why rendering
in Sugar is so slow, I can give some pointers. Also, except for icon
rendering, it would also benefit rendering of GNOME windows.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> And when viewing "moving pictures", the
>> currently scanty hardware acceleration (e.g., ticket #9407) is noticeable.
>>
>> For me, the XO-1.5 is a "performer" -- it runs many many Activities, plus
>> applications ported from Linux.  Interaction with the network works.  I
>> think that with this product the users' demands are met.
>>
>> mikus
>>
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