[ale] ARM CPU devices, linux capable, cheap

[Ron Frazier]

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1024GB Nvidia GPU running ...

1024 GIGA Bytes, that's a LOT of video memory!

8-)

Ron


On 8/12/2011 1:18 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>      
>
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