On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 05:54:17PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > > > I also got a second-hand Thinkpad last month, a T400, and I love it > > too. I think it's from 2009 or 2010. > > > > Mine has an Intel core 2 duo CPU (P8400 @ 2.26GHz) and 4GB ram, but > > a slightly slower CPU and 2GB of ram would also be fine for web > > browsing and office stuff. However, I don't know how much memory > > freemind or other electronic design software uses, so I would > > recommend getting 4GB if you can. (The T400 is upgradable to 8GB. > > You might want to check the maximum memory capacity on laptops you're > > considering.) > > > > (BTW, for office and the web, even 1GB might work but it may be a > > little tight. Myolder laptop had 1GB ram and it didn't run out of > > memory often --- only when I had very many tabs open --- but the > > single-core Amd athlon xp 2200 @ 1.6GHz was slow. It was from 2004.)
I agree with your comments below, about the desktop environment affecting how much ram is needed. I should have mentioned that what I wrote above was based on using MATE. > How much RAM is sufficient depends more on the desktop GUI. For GNOME > and KDE, I recommend 4GB at least. The system I'm using now has gone > through multiple upgrades (hardware and OSes) since I built it in 2007 > with a 2.0GHZ 64-bit single-core AMD CPU & 2 GB RAM running Fedora 6, > first 32-bit, then 64, and GNOME2. Even with just a browser, file > manager, and a few applets running, it could be sluggish at times, > particularly when accessing the menus. Upgrading to 4GB RAM solved all > that. > > However, if using XFCE or LXDE or just a window manager, 1 or 2 GB RAM > would be fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150124090559.GA6271@side