On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 09:24 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am considering purchasing a cheap second-hand laptop to install linux on, > and also GRASS. > > I want to be able to run GRASS on the laptop. > > I do not intend to do heavy processing. I only want to demonstrate > GRASS, show of the various features and prove that it works. > > What minimum hardware specifications are recommended for GRASS? > > Regards, > nick
Hi Nick! Any laptop that "just runs linux" will run GRASS. And because any laptop "can" (theoretically) run linux without problems, you should rather look for *which* distro and its minimum requirements. *Practically* speaking, I would look for tested-linux laptops [1] to avoid nightmare's with drivers for the graphics! (a) ATI drivers don't perform well currently even if ATI "opened" the specs -- they will become good in the future. (b) NVidia drivers are binary-only (closed-source) but it's true that they perform good. Of course the more RAM and VideoRAM the better (in general). Another important issue is I think the monitor. The bigger the better. Especially if you are going to use it for demonstrations. If you can get a 17" it would be great. If not a 15.4" should be also ok. The 14" or less are not not enough for any kind of demonstrating anything on more than 2-3 people (I have one 14"). Regards, Nikos [1] Some pointers: http://www.linux-laptop.net/, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
