[ale] ARM CPU devices, linux capable, cheap

[Rich Faulkner]

It sure is a lot of video memory!  How do I get it all in there?

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On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 13:41 -0400, Ron Frazier wrote:
> Quote:
> 
> 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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