3 gig is more than enough for a simple setup. However, if you're going to run Eclipse, you might be starved for CPU cycles on a CPU that slow. How much memory do you have? I've had bad experiences running Eclipse (and its big brother Websphere Application Developer) on machines with less than 512mb of memory.
My laptop runs Eclipse comfortably and fast with a 1.6ghz Centrino and 1gig of RAM. To run WSAD happily, my workstation at the office is a dual 2.4ghz Xeon with 2gig of RAM. Chris M. On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:21:13 -0500, Skylar Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:06:39PM -0500, Cecil wrote: > > I bought a nice little laptop off ebay... Its got a 3 gig hd. All I want > > to do is have developement packages on, X windows, probably run > > Eclipse(where do i get that from anyway??? ), surf web, get email, > > listen to winamp radio and write scripts. 366mhz is the speed of the > > processor. Will the hd be too small? Will the processor slow me down? I > > will not be ripping mp3s, I will not be playing games. Just coding and > > basic internet useage. Any opinions? > > If you're careful about what you install, you should be fine. The real disk > hogs (GNOME and KDE) are also CPU and memory hogs, so you'll probably want > to stay away from them. Go with something small as a window manager, like > IceWM, XFce, or VTWM and you'll be fine. > > -- > -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ > > > > noname - 1K > -- Chris Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://chrismetcalf.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
