512MB is more than enough for "ordinary" graphical duties... 1. My wife's laptop is a HP Omnibook 8000 with a 800MHz processor and 256MB of RAM. It runs Ubuntu 6.06 - she rips CDs, edits basic office docs, balances our budget, etc. No real complaints. 2. The OLPC project XO machine has a 433Mhz AMD Geode with 256MB RAM and 1GB flash. Thousands of kids are already very happy with it making music, reading, writing,playing and generally collaborating. Hopefully millions more will so this year.
Sure, with my 2GB equipped laptop I can do nice big photo collages with the GIMP and run lots of VMs. But I was getting by on Linux (and even WinXP) for quite a few years with only 512M or less. On Jan 8, 2008 10:09 PM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 512 seems little to little to me, maybe 3-4 years ago that might have been > okay. > > But i guess depends on what you are going to do with it. I run openwrt > (linux > firewall router/wireless ap and soon asterix server!) on 8M arm > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 08:20:21PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > > Dunno whether it's enough. My HP laptop has 512 and that's quite okay, > mind > > you it has a faster processor than this machine. > > > > Hard to tell...someone's going to have to play with it to find out :) > > > > Regards, > > > > Patrick > > > >> Re: [SLUG] Let the UMPC wars start :) > >> Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:19:08 +1100 > >> [email protected] > >> Is 512M really enough memory ? > >> > >> > >> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:46:57PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: > >>> Hi David, > >>> > >>> I know, I was wondering about the price too. > >>> > >>> One of the links I found stated that the company claimed it was going > to > >>> make it competitive with the eeepc - whatever that *really* means :) > >>> > >>> It's quite a quirky looking thing machine. I'm not sure about the > >>> 'transparent keyboard' though. I'd really have to see how irritating > it > >>> was. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> > >>> Patrick > >>> > >>> David Gillies wrote: > >>>> elliott-brennan wrote: > >>>>> Hi all, > >>>>> > >>>>> Check out this site: > >>>>> > >>>>> http://ubuntu-watch.com/ > >>>>> > > snip > > > > > > -- > > Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHg1nskZz88chpJ2MRAsbIAJ9z0mKgfMWy2J90YE5XZAasPGogzACfWCEA > qF+Imf0udwcluKXVnLLuC5w= > =vrf7 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
