[ale] Laptops and Linux

[James Taylor]

I regularly run OO on an old Athlon  based desktop with 512MB of ram ( 5400 rpm IDE drives) without any noticable slowness or delays.

-jt


James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com







>>> On Fri, Nov 3, 2006 at  3:24 PM, in message
<1162585469.16355.7.camel at localhost>, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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