On Sat, 24 Jan 2015, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > 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.
I wasn't finding fault with your recommendations, just clarifying based on my experiences. Better to have more info than you need than not enough. ;-) While I agree that MATE is a lighter weight environment than the current GNOME, and probably GNOME2, too, it still is heavier than XFCE, LXDE or a window manager. Really, I've discovered through fooling around with TinyX, X is a RAM hog, too, reardless of GUI. But what are you going to do? TinyX really isn't suitable as a general X server. Even recompiling X doesn't help much. It's just the nature of the beast. Fortunately, RAM is cheap. > > > 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/20150124102735.42086...@debian7.boseck208.net
