Cheap Laptop

[Rusty Carruth]

4 is 'ok', depending upon distribution, but remember that there's a bit 
of a leak in Firefox (and chromium, and ...), so IMHO 8GB RAM is the 
minimum you should consider.

But as long as you don't do much web browsing (or always kill your 
browser so the leaks don't bite), 4GB is 'ok', but tight. IMHO

On 10/11/23 13:53, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I agree the flash is going to be slower, from my experience.  I do 
> think 4GB RAM is enough for a Linux machine.  This computer would be 
> all my wife would need - email, surfing the internet, and occasional 
> letter writing.
>
>
>
> On 2023-10-11 12:17, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> Looking at the actual machine, note that it only has 4GB of RAM, which
>> is likely not upgradeable, and 128GB of UFS storage (not NVME), and
>> thus is likely not upgradable either. So, that's all it's going to
>> have ever, and the disk is going to be a bottleneck, at least for
>> writes.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, at 9:18 AM, Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>
>>> It's basically a CPU with just the Efficiency cores of a U or P
>>> series processor I believe. They're pretty good from what I've seen,
>>> much better than the older celeron J and N series processors.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, at 8:47 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-15-6-Laptop-Intel-Processor-N200-Pentium-4GB-RAM-128GB-UFS-Natural-Silver-Windows-11-Home-in-S-Mode-15-fd0081wm/2950076964?athbdg=L1800 
>>
>>>>
>>>> The N200 CPU has a decent benchmark with 4 cores and 4 treads...
>>>>
>>>> Seems like it would make a nice Linux machine.
>>>>
>>>> Keith
>>>>
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