On 2024-02-19 10:32, Howard Gibson via talk wrote:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:52:38 -0500 (EST)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <[email protected]> wrote:
I bought a very inexpensive laptop from costco.ca.
Dead deal:
<https://forums.redflagdeals.com/costco-ca-hot-299-99-hp-15-6-touchscreen-laptop-intel-core-i3-1215u-8gb-ram-256gb-ssd-2673529/>
Unlike most laptops these days, it has two sockets for RAM.
Only one was occupied. It had an 8 GiB stick of RAM.
Hugh,
I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For
GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum.
My travel laptop has only 4gb ram and is very very nimble. My wife winds
up loading at least 4 firefox tabs with google maps and as many media
rich tabs of museums or other attractions. I was even prepared to use
xfce on it but it runs KDE 5 perfectly fine.
Hugh pointed it out last year, a cheap chromebook at Best Buy for
$99.99, a lenovo
ideapad 3 11" chromebook, celeron-n4020 64gb emmc, 4gb-ram
It is very light. It started out life as a chromebook until I
corebooted it and now run Debian testing on a crypted file system. I
would be annoyed if was stolen or lost, but at $99 I wouldn't be crying.
The only issue I have with it is that I have never been able to get the
internal sound card working, I'm using a DAC instead.
PS: I ran linux on chromeos for a while but was unhappy with a) the two
OS maintenance, b) the trouble getting a VPN up to the mother ship and
c) not being able to crypt the box and d) the inconvenience.
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Michael Galea
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