On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 12:19:02AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > On 1/22/15, Jarle Aase <j...@jgaa.com> wrote: > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > If you look for an older laptop, Lenovo ThinkPad may be a good > > > choise. The 12" models are relatively portable, and the build > > > quality is fabulous. I've had my old X60T for about 9 years now, > > > and it's still in daily use. I have changed the disk a few times, > > > the fan once and the battery twice. > > > > > > Unfortunately, Lenovo does not support Linux as an option for the > > > ThinkPad series. But all models I have came across works well with > > > Debian and other distributions. (Watch out for the cheaper > > > ThinkPade Edge series - I have some really bad experiences with > > > some of those). > > > > > > Mine's Lenovo ThinkPad T61 secondhand. 15" (give or take). Have had > > it about a year and a half. I LOVE IT.. > > 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.)
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. B -- 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/20150123175417.548e8...@debian7.boseck208.net
