Hi Laptops for home use are getting higher and higher hardware specs as people think that they need it. Also the fact that Vista needs minimum 1 ram of memory to run fine has made the computer´s companies go higher and higher.
My home computer runs Mepis with 512mb of memory, an athlon and 128mb nvidia graphis sooo well. In fact unless you are going to do video editing or gaming or run a server on it, you shouldn´t need more than 1gb of RAM. Cheers! Llanos 2008/12/28 Kevin Mark <kevin.m...@verizon.net> > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:46:57PM +0000, Diana Scott wrote: > > Hi > > > > I went to the sales earlier and noticed the latest laptops have Due Core > > processor speed of 2Ghz with 4Gb RAM. I wonder what activities a laptop > with > > Duo Core or Centrino 2 with 4 Gb ram can achieve where a laptop with > Centrino > > (Pentium M) 1.7Ghz with 2Gb ram with debian 5.0 Lenny or Ubuntu 8.10 > cannot do > > equally as good, given the same knowledge for both laptops. > > > > Diana > due core|2ghz|4gb > centrino|1.7ghz|2gb > hmm. they look similar. > the capabilities are not just limited to processor and ram. For a better > comparison, you would need to know what support they have in the Kernel > for things like graphics card, video camera, usb ports, sound chips, > etc. And then you need to determine what your needs are. For general > use (web surfing, writing, playing music) both are fine. But then again, > I have an OLPC XO-1 and I can do those things with a 7" screen, 128MB > ram and a 400mhz processor. The more powerful task like photo editing, > compiling source code, playing games, and editing video are were you > will see the different in the laptops. > -Kev > -- > | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | > | : :' : The Universal > |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/|<http://mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/%7C> > | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | > | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | > | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | > |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | > |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Llanos
