<div dir="ltr">I am thinking about taking the Win 8 disk drive and putting it in a drawer. Then putting a small SSD drive and installing Linux. That worked really well for a low end desktop I built. It is handling Mint well. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 2:37 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wam@hiwaay.net" target="_blank">wam@hiwaay.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11/15/14 12:42, Allen Krell wrote:<br>
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When I upgraded in August to this box (desktop), I determined that it was mostly I/O slowing the old one down (also desktop). I suspect that *any* contemporary laptop should be AOK w/ more modern I/O, maybe even a SSD root drive .... My old box was an AMD645X2 3800+, 2GB RAM, w/ SATA I I/O, & it was the I/O that was bogged down. You should be AOK w/ a modern Celeron & 4 GB RAM .... $0.02, no more, no less ....<br>
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I have a 2005 era HP laptop running Crunchbang Linux I use for travel. I<br>
was looking for something lighter.<br>
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There seems to be a group of $249 laptops with Celeron processor and 500GB<br>
disk drive and 4GB memory. I may also be able to get a Dell Inspiron for<br>
$189. They have Windows 8, but I thought about dual boot or wiping it.<br>
Any experience on how a full LInux install does on an Celeron with 4GB<br>
memory?<br>
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