"that's what I meant why cpu power matters even on rather trivial every day purposes like browsing pics from the digicam and why I wouldn't proceed a medium clocked L2 cache less 440 core processor as desktop maschine."

And i agree completely. I just don't get the argument that 400MHz hw is enough because it can run the system at decent speed. My comment was just about the speed of image decoding which pegasos should still do in reasonable time to not be annoyed(just tried some 7Mpix images, and they decode in 0.5-1s time, depending on the photo contents).