[ale] ARM CPU devices, linux capable, cheap

[Rich Faulkner]

I am far from an Ubuntu pro but I've been using it a lot lately and
doing builds for various people on a variety of platforms.  1GB RAM is a
basic figure you can count on for most recent releases of Ubuntu.  My
student installed 10.10 on an IBM Thinkcenter last night which had 768MB
RAM w/a Celeron 1.8 (I think).  It won't win races but it does run.

Attempts at running recent releases on anything less than that has not
had good results so I shoot for 1GB as a base on memory.  

My current desktop (refurb'd HP xw4600 w/dual-core 2.6ish w/4GB RAM,
1024GB Nvidia GPU running 10.10 from a WD 10K Raptor) boots in 15
seconds flat.  A far cry better than my old Fedora 12 build that I just
retired.

I generally look at RAM as first consideration then CPU and keep an open
mind toward something other than Ubuntu if a real legacy system.  

Rich in Lilburn



On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 11:57 -0400, Ron Frazier wrote:
> Hi Boris,
> 
> You've got a point.  Depends on what you're doing with it I guess.  For 
> a full blown Ubuntu install with GUI, I'd probably want to see 500 MHz 
> CPU and 500 MB RAM.  1 GHz and 1GB would be even better.  Before I 
> decommissioned it, I had Ubuntu running nicely on a 2002 vintage Pentium 
> IV 2.4 GHz with only 1 GB of RAM.  Not sure whether the main limiting 
> factor on slower machines is CPU or RAM or both.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ron
> 
> On 8/12/2011 11:23 AM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> > You are right about "cheap" but I recently bought almost the same spec mini notebook but with Xburst CPU 366 Mhz with 128MB RAM and it is painfully slow. You may want to consider 258 MB model.
> >
> > or ...
> >
> > I just noticed BrandsMartUSA got cheap Sylvania tablet with Android 2.1 already in for the same price range.
> >
> > http://www.brandsmartusa.com/Product/151070-Sylvania-Synet7lp-7-Android-Tablet
> >
> >    
>