Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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 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
--
Yeah, I drank the Open Source cool-aid... Unlike the other brand, it had
all the ingredients on the label.
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