[ale] Laptops and Linux

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 3 15:24:29 EST 2006


On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 15:05 -0500, Dan Lambert wrote:
> Your problem, Robert, is the lack of memory on your computer. I run a 
> T41 with a 1.6 GHz Pentium M that flies through just about anything I 
> throw at it, but I have 1.5 gigs of RAM in it.
> 
> Put either another 512 or a 1 Gig stick of RAM in it, and you'll be off 
> to the races!

I have to agree, my last laptop was a T40 with 1GB of memory and
OpenOffice ran fine.  Note: OpenOffice is the biggest CPU and memory hog
for Linux.. more so than Quake3 or UT2004 IMHO.

-Jim P.

> Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > 
> >   I'm looking to get another laptop.  Right now I'm on a Lenovo (IBM) 3000
> > N100.  Core 2 Duo, 512Meg Ram, 1.66Ghz and it's killing me.  Open Firefox, 
> > Amarok and an OpenOffice Spreadsheet and I can grind it to a halt for 10 
> > minutes.
> > 
> >   I don't want to spend 2k, but any off the top of your head
> > suggestions?  Any opinions of an AMD Turion vs P4?  Duo or no, etc?
> > Yes, it will need to run Linux, Debian or Ubuntu.
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
> 
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