On 11/1/05, Jekke Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All-- > > I'm speccing out low-end laptops that I can use for writing and not much > else. I was wondering: > > 1. What's the cheapest laptop I can buy and run OOo reliably? > 2. What's the cheapest laptop I can buy and run OOo under Windows > reliably? > > TIA > > --Jekke
Hello Jekke, Pretty much any new laptop can run OOo, both on Linux and Windows, no matter how cheap it is. Walmart has a laptop for under $500, and it more than meets the minimum requirements. In fact, it comes with a distro of Linux that already has a skinned version of OpenOffice.org on it. (Linspire has rebranded OOo to LinspireOffice.) Here's a link: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3504708 Note: I'm not suggesting you buy this particular laptop, just that it's the cheapest one I could find with in a very quick search, and it's plenty fast enough. Even if you bought that computer, wiped the hard drive, and put (a legally purchased copy of) Windows XP on it, it should still run OOo. The start up might be slow (since it only has 128 MB of RAM), but if you use the Quickstarter, it shouldn't be a problem. Here are the system requirements: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_20.html Note: They do not say anything about the processor speed. But anything that runs Windows XP is fast enough for OOo. I'd suggest, just from experience, trying to keep it above 500 Mhz. Again, any system that you buy new is going to be plenty fast. I've run a Linux based system with OOo on a processor has slow as 133 Mhz with 64 MB of RAM. And I've run Windows XP with OOo on a system as low as 200 MHz with 64 MB of RAM. Both were very slow, but they worked. HTH! -Chad Smith
