On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 10:58 AM mwilson--- via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Giles Orr" <[email protected]> said: > > Hi Aruna. > > > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 21:56, Aruna Hewapathirane via talk > > <[email protected]> wrote: > [ ... ] > >> I am also very interested in seeing if a Pi can replace my ancient > >> desktop. I simply can't > >> afford the Pi-4 desktop version with the dual monitor setup so thought I > >> will ask and see if > >> anyone has a spare. > >[ ... ] > > I'm using a Pi 4 with 8G as a secondary desktop, and have been finding > > it quite useful. Mind you, I'm not using it for Gimp photo editing - > > but I do use it for web browsing (not a lightweight activity) and it > > handles that well. I think you would find any of the 1G models > > unsatisfactory as a desktop replacement: I wouldn't think about it > > until it had 4G RAM, and I'd prefer the 8G. > > Memory might not be horribly tight. I'm running a session now with half a > dozen Image Viewer instances (~ 1Mpixel each), a Gimp instance with a > half-dozen 2..3MByte .xcf's, and Firefox with a commercial page and this > SquirrelMail page, and memory usage just cracked 1040MB, according to Task > Manager. Most data is on a USB hard drive, but that shouldn't matter. > A 4GB Pi might be roomy, for a modest workload. > I just found that out on a virtualbox and Raspberry Pi using just 512Mb as System Memory :-) > > > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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