Posted by: Tom Buskey
on September 28, 2002 11:45 AM
It depends on what you're doing. Web surfing, email, news, word processing, light spreadsheets? I had a P150 w/ 80MB. I used Netscape 4.x, exmh, pan, abiword, staroffice (slowly), and gnumeric. Ximian gnome on Mandrake 7.
When it died, I got a celeron 1GHz with 256MB. Mandrake 8.2, Mozilla or Galeon, Ximian, and now I can run VMware.
I looked at used laptops, but this new one was $1050 last fall. I wanted to run VMware and saving $300 by going to a used laptop wasn't worth the performance hit.
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Re:What's wrong with PI laptops?
Posted by: Tom Buskey on September 28, 2002 11:45 AMWhen it died, I got a celeron 1GHz with 256MB. Mandrake 8.2, Mozilla or Galeon, Ximian, and now I can run VMware.
I looked at used laptops, but this new one was $1050 last fall. I wanted to run VMware and saving $300 by going to a used laptop wasn't worth the performance hit.
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