[LUNA] $240 laptop

[Allen Krell]

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.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 2:37 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>
wrote:

> 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/
>>>
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