"Giles Orr" <giles...@gmail.com> said: > Hi Aruna. > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 21:56, Aruna Hewapathirane via talk > <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: [ ... ] >> I am also very interested in seeing if a Pi can replace my ancient >> desktop. I simply can't >> afford the Pi-4 desktop version with the dual monitor setup so thought I >> will ask and see if >> anyone has a spare. >[ ... ] > I'm using a Pi 4 with 8G as a secondary desktop, and have been finding > it quite useful. Mind you, I'm not using it for Gimp photo editing - > but I do use it for web browsing (not a lightweight activity) and it > handles that well. I think you would find any of the 1G models > unsatisfactory as a desktop replacement: I wouldn't think about it > until it had 4G RAM, and I'd prefer the 8G.
Memory might not be horribly tight. I'm running a session now with half a dozen Image Viewer instances (~ 1Mpixel each), a Gimp instance with a half-dozen 2..3MByte .xcf's, and Firefox with a commercial page and this SquirrelMail page, and memory usage just cracked 1040MB, according to Task Manager. Most data is on a USB hard drive, but that shouldn't matter. A 4GB Pi might be roomy, for a modest workload. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk