my first pc was a very very slow
computer running windows 200 i think
that my dads school(he was a teacher) didn’t want anymore
i was 6 so i don’t remember much though
apart from the fact i was very disappointed :(
and i didn’t know what lxde was at the time
the second pc i owned was a 2gb ram i3 proessor
laptop with a 320gb HDD running windows 7
it ended up (like most windows machines do) after a 2 months on the internet
with virus software that costs £120 a year slowing down
loads so that even Google chrome(no i dont use it anymore)
took about 2 minits to load and i did not know about
gnu/linux then
so i sold it and got this thing:
http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GX660.html#hero-specification
which was a very good laptop and initially i ran ubuntu on it but after
hearing about the spy-ware and listening to rms
i ran a libre operating system on it
but i ended up selling it for about £500 as the WIFI and GPU
didn’t work too well with libre software
then i decided to build my own computer with a
£700 budget (after negotiating with the shop selling the parts i got the
price off 10%)
my current system(running trisquel 7) is a custom built
pc with 16gb 2400mhz ram a i7 processor oct core
3.5ghz 8mb cache and a 128gb SSD with 1tb HDD
and 450mbps WIFI card
the PC is quite low power considering its spec
it used between about 60 and 120
i think this is due to that fact i don’t have a external GPU(don’t need
one as my ram is 2400mhz which rely helps as
the system ram becomes the video ram so the faster that is the faster your
GPU is basically)
also i use a SSD as my main drive which makes everything rely rely fast and
as it has no moving parts it consumes less power
