[ale] Laptops and Linux

[Jeff Lightner]

I think by now that's actually something like twenty-seconded :)


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Robert Story
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 5:35 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Cc: jknapka at kneuro.net
Subject: Re: [ale] Laptops and Linux

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..
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