On 18/03/14 03:33, Colin Adams wrote:
My 6-year-old laptop has finally given up the ghost, so I'm looking
for a new one.
What I'm currently considering is a:
Lenovo Ideapad U310 13-inch Ultrabook (Graphite) - (Intel Core i3
3217U 1.8GHz Processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD + 24GB SSD, Windows 8)
Of course, I shall promptly remove windows and put Fedora 20 on it
instead.
My principle use of darktable is on my desktop machine, but when i go
away on holiday, i use my latop for storage (I dump my cards to it
every evening). Then I will use the lighttable feature to look over my
days photos.
So it's nice to have a 500GB drive (my old machine had only 80MB, and
I once filled it up with two days left of the holiday. Luckily I was
able to rely on my card for the last 2 days, but sometimes I fill it
up in less than 2 hours). But what to do with the 24GB SSD? My first
thought is to use it for a swap file, but if there is some feature of
darktable that could exploit it, I'd consider that instead.
Install bcache, so that the SSD becomes a cache for the HDD. See, for
example, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SSD_cache and
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=296015.
Nick
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