[LUNA] $240 laptop

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 11/15/14 12:42, Allen Krell wrote:


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 ....


> I have a 2005 era HP laptop running Crunchbang Linux I use for travel.  I
> was looking for something lighter.
>
> There seems to be a group of $249 laptops with Celeron processor and 500GB
> disk drive and 4GB memory.   I may also be able to get a Dell Inspiron for
> $189.   They have Windows 8, but I thought about dual boot or wiping it.
> Any experience on how a full LInux install does on an Celeron with 4GB
> memory?
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Christian Hoffmeyer <
> christian at asteriasgi.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.cnet.com/news/walmart-to-sell-99-windows-8-1-tablet-on-black-friday/
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Christian Hoffmeyer
>> christian at asteriasgi.com<mailto:christian at asteriasgi.com>
>>
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