Hans wrote: > I discovered some small laptops (10 inch and 7 inch), with an Intel N100 > processor, up to 16 GB RAM and ump to 1 TB disk. But shipped with windows. > > 2 questions: > > 1. Does one have any experience, if the N100 cpu is usable for fluently work? > These processors are also built in small mini computers.
I have an N100 mini running firewall duties. It is more than adequate for that. > 2., Can debian installed on these laptops or are theire BIOSes mostly dongled > like on Microsoft Surface tablets and have to be cracked? I don't know about the laptops; I found it very easy to install Debian stable. > However, the question is: Will the N100 be fast enough for fluently working > with it? (My comparision is a Fujitsu Lifebook with 8GB and an I5 cpu). I have a very old mini -- 11 years old -- running an i3-3227U, which is strictly inferior to an N100 in every benchmark and technology. It works just fine as a Debian desktop running X, XFCE, LibreOffice and Firefox. Having enough RAM and an SSD goes a long way towards usability. -dsr-
