On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:39:35 -0500, thad05 wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Heck. I think my machines at work and at home are only worth about 50
>> quid. Madness what people put up with...
>
> My latest laptop only cost me $300 at the used computer store. Its a HP
> Pavilion with 80GB harddrive, DVD/CD burner, 1GB RAM and a 1.8 GHz AMD
> Turion 64 CPU. It runs Ubuntu 7.10 like a champ. I'm posting via it
> right now. I would be curious to see how Vista would perform on this,
> but I'm not about to waste the money on a copy of it, and I'm not sure I
> could bring myself to delete my Ubuntu install even if someone gave me a
> free copy of Vista.
I have an Eee running Ubuntu 7.10 (tailored for the Eee) off an SD Card.
I use it whenever I have to go to a client site or the colo facility. I
have X setup to use a virtual screen set to 800x800 which lets me use all
the apps quite efficiently on that 800x480 screen. (though I'd rather
just have a 1024x768 screen).
>
> I still have an old Sony Picturebook with only 64MB of RAM and a 266MHz
> CPU that runs Linux just fine. As an X terminal for working from out on
> the deck it is great. It pages a bit when running firefox locally, but
> is still usable. Even OpenOffice will load and run, though you might
> want to get a cup of coffee while it first starts. :)
>
> Thad
I still have a 486SX-33 laptop with 4MB of RAM at home (yes... _Mega_
bytes). Though, I use that particular laptop only to run DOS for the
purposes of programming my Motorola two-way radios (which I also take to
client sites). The RSS for the old radios won't run on anything faster
than DX-66 without having to disable cache and other stuff which screws
up the timing.
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