IT customers (Re: recommendations for a mini laptop)

2019-09-24 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Am Mittwoch 07 August 2019 16:20:32 schrieb Paul Boddie: > Sadly, "more is better" continues to be the dominant theme of the > technology industry: power consumption benefits (due to more efficient > circuitry) are typically overturned by vastly increased consumption. It is a main theme of the vas

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-08-07 Thread Paul Boddie
On Thursday 18. July 2019 09.54.59 Michael Kesper wrote: > On 17.07.19 13:30, Paul Boddie wrote: > > And obviously, with everybody loading up the "modern" Web with superfluous > > gadgetry, Firefox will gladly saturate the CPU, I/O channels and take lots > > of RAM. Unfortunately, more lightweight

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-07-22 Thread Thomas Levine
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019, at 07:46, Michael Kesper wrote: > While normal sites are usable when uBlock Origin takes care of > filtering out most > crap, more "active" sites (heavy use of JS/CSS) become really sluggy, I am recently filtering these other sites in the firewall or in DNS. I am preferring

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-07-19 Thread Michael Kesper
Hi Paul, On 17.07.19 13:30, Paul Boddie wrote: > And obviously, with everybody loading up the "modern" Web with superfluous > gadgetry, Firefox will gladly saturate the CPU, I/O channels and take lots of > RAM. Unfortunately, more lightweight browsers like NetSurf [3] are likely to > struggle w

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-07-18 Thread Paul Boddie
On Tuesday 16. July 2019 17.07.25 Michel Roche wrote: > Hello, > I've used to be quite fan of eeePcs but in the long run they appeared to > be not powerfull enough, even for basic usage with lighweight desktops > (lxde is he limit). The amount of memory in various devices is now a significant prob

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-07-16 Thread Michel Roche
Hello, I've used to be quite fan of eeePcs but in the long run they appeared to be not powerfull enough, even for basic usage with lighweight desktops (lxde is he limit). Finally I prefer getting old X200 or X2[2-4]0 Thinkpads, maybe a little bigger, slightly more expensive, but way more usable in

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-07-04 Thread Michael Kesper
Hi Erik, On 03.07.19 13:44, Erik Albers wrote: > On the german list someone came up with the eeePC. This is from size exactly > what I am looking for and you can get them second hand at around 50 euro. That's great, much better then dumping these old PCs. I saw there are some available featuring

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-07-04 Thread Alessandro Rubini
> On the german list someone came up with the eeePC. This is from size exactly > what I am looking for and you can get them second hand at around 50 euro. I had 3. One was my laptop (with external keyboard), one was my son's and the other was my wife's desktop (with external kbd/mouse. One broke

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-07-04 Thread Erik Albers
On 04.07.19 12:44, Alessandro Rubini wrote: >> On the german list someone came up with the eeePC. This is from size exactly >> what I am looking for and you can get them second hand at around 50 euro. > > I had 3. One was my laptop (with external keyboard), one was my son's > and the other was my

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-07-04 Thread David Boddie
On Wed Jul 3 11:44:19 UTC 2019, Erik Albers wrote: > On the german list someone came up with the eeePC. This is from size exactly > what I am looking for and you can get them second hand at around 50 euro. Golden Delicious still sell the Letux 400 netbook for 125 euro: http://shop.goldelico.com/

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-07-04 Thread Erik Albers
On 28.06.19 14:25, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote: > Am Freitag 21 Juni 2019 17:17:38 schrieb Erik Albers: >> I am looking for a tiny laptop in a size of 9 or 10 inch that runs >> GNU/Linux > > What about > * https://www.pine64.org/pinebook/ > maybe to large, it is 11.6" :) thank you, I was already

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-07-01 Thread MJ Ray
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:08:59 +0200 Samuel Lelièvre wrote: > You might be interested in William Stein's notes on turning a > Pixelbook into a development environment with Crostini and CoCalc. > > https://cocalc.com/share/7e3d9d776c51474c4b81a8864f7595a8df2427c6/chromeos/?viewer=share That is int

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-06-30 Thread Gianfranco Pellegrino
Hello, it's not fitting all your requirements but I'm very happy with my Acer C720 Chromebook (11.6-Inch, 2GB). The production is now discontinued but you might find it in some online shops. I replaced ChromeOS with elementaryOS and upgraded the HD. The battery lasts for really many hours. I used

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-06-30 Thread Bernhard E. Reiter
Am Freitag 21 Juni 2019 17:17:38 schrieb Erik Albers: > I am looking for a tiny laptop in a size of 9 or 10 inch that runs > GNU/Linux What about * https://www.pine64.org/pinebook/ maybe to large, it is 11.6" :) * https://store.planetcom.co.uk/collections/gemini-pda/products/gemini-pda-1 prob

Re: recommendations for a mini laptop

2019-06-24 Thread Samuel Lelièvre
You might be interested in William Stein's notes on turning a Pixelbook into a development environment with Crostini and CoCalc. https://cocalc.com/share/7e3d9d776c51474c4b81a8864f7595a8df2427c6/chromeos/?viewer=share ___ Discussion mailing list Discussi