[ale] Laptops and Linux

[Robert Story]

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:57:59 -0700 JK wrote:
J> Robert L. Harris wrote:
J> >   I'm looking to get another laptop.  Right now I'm on a Lenovo (IBM) 3000
J> > N100.  Core 2 Duo, 512Meg Ram, 1.66Ghz and it's killing me.  Open Firefox, 
J> > Amarok and an OpenOffice Spreadsheet and I can grind it to a halt for 10 
J> > minutes.
J> 
J> Giving your old machine a RAM infusion (even just bringing
J> it up to 1G) might make a huge difference.

Seconded! You've named 3 of the biggest memory hogging applications around. I
think doubling (or better) you memory will definitely help. Starting all 3 at
once might still take a while, but things will be much smoother once they are
all up and running..