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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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