I'm using an equivalent laptop as my main system at the moment - a Dell Latitude C600. PIII 750Mhz, 256MB RAM. It runs CentOS OK. It's not speedy, but definitely quick enough to be usable. I had the same issue when I started out with it - loaded up RedHat w/64MB RAM and it fell over. Adding two 128MB sticks did the trick.
I'm using GNOME with it, and it eats most all of the RAM. I've got about 10% left and it goes into swapping. 512MB and a newer, faster HDD would make the machine perform comfortably. I use it as a training machine, for which it is excellent. The small size and easy-to-read screen are a big asset for learning with a book. JKB > > I've got a surplus Thinkpad (A21e) which currently has 64MB of RAM. > > I installed FC3 on it and it boots, but runs out of memory, if I try > > to run an application or two. Is it worth it to add more memory? > > The max this little puppy can hold is 256MB, it has two sockets for > > either 64MB or 128MB PC100 SODIMMs. > > > > Would adding 128MB to get 192MB be reasonable? If not would > > replacing the existing module with two 128MB modules to get 256MB be > > acceptable? Anyone know where I can get these modules cheap? -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
