Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 05:54:17PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote:
>
> > I also got a second-hand Thinkpad last month, a T400, and I love it
> > too. I think it's from 2009 or 2010.
> >
> > Mine has an Intel core 2 duo CPU (P8400 @ 2.26GHz) and 4GB ram, but
> > a slightly slower CPU and 2GB of ram would also be fine for web
> > browsing and office stuff. However, I don't know how much memory
> > freemind or other electronic design software uses, so I would
> > recommend getting 4GB if you can. (The T400 is upgradable to 8GB.
> > You might want to check the maximum memory capacity on laptops you're
> > considering.)
> >
> > (BTW, for office and the web, even 1GB might work but it may be a
> > little tight. Myolder laptop had 1GB ram and it didn't run out of
> > memory often --- only when I had very many tabs open --- but the
> > single-core Amd athlon xp 2200 @ 1.6GHz was slow. It was from 2004.)
I agree with your comments below, about the desktop environment affecting
how much ram is needed. I should have mentioned that what I wrote above
was based on using MATE.
> How much RAM is sufficient depends more on the desktop GUI. For GNOME
> and KDE, I recommend 4GB at least. The system I'm using now has gone
> through multiple upgrades (hardware and OSes) since I built it in 2007
> with a 2.0GHZ 64-bit single-core AMD CPU & 2 GB RAM running Fedora 6,
> first 32-bit, then 64, and GNOME2. Even with just a browser, file
> manager, and a few applets running, it could be sluggish at times,
> particularly when accessing the menus. Upgrading to 4GB RAM solved all
> that.
>
> However, if using XFCE or LXDE or just a window manager, 1 or 2 GB RAM
> would be fine.
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