On 9/17/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob La Quey wrote: > > This laptop is for my daugheter who is a freshman at SDSU. > > She is a small woman, not quite 5 feet tall, so she wants > > a light weight laptop and the X series only weighs 3.6 lbs. > > > > Anyone care to suggest another lightweight laptop that > > would be a good linux box? > > As much as I approve the idea of her being only on Linux, it's not > really practical at SDSU. Even with my MacBook Pro, I occasionally bump > into something that I need to fire up XP via VMWare to deal with.
I am curious what she is likely to run into that cannot be handled by say Open Office. Maybe some .wmv stuff? She has shown no interest in games. My main objection is simple. I do not want to be on the hook for keeping viruses and spyware off her box. Do you have a simple solution that I am ignorant of for keeping a Windows box running? > I normally don't wade into stuff like this, but I'm really going to > recommend that you spend the money for a Core 2 Duo mumblesomething. I > think the low-end Apple portables would probably fit the bill. > > The perceived jump in performance to a dual processor from a single > processor is quite large. The interactive responsiveness of a dual core > is system is *much* better than single. > > -a Maybe I am just old fashioned but the vast majority of what I expect her to be doing is just simple word processing. That and web surfing. Just a few years ago we did word processing quite adequately on 10 Mhz machines. Web surfing can use more horsepower for sure ... but what it usually needs is more bandwidth. Examples, please. BobLQ PS. Antonet is enrolled in the nursing program. She might become a doctor. PPS. A web service that would translate .wmv files to say flash would sure be nice, eh. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
