Cheap Laptop

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You guys and gals are much more informed in this matter than I.  I am 
running Kubuntu on an old i5, with 4 cores/4 threads.  It has 16GB of 
RAM... The specs say it will run in 4GB of RAM - 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements

I'm not arguing, I'm thinking this cheap little $200 laptop might be 
able to meet the needs of a lot of Linux people.

I know it could be used as a simple LAMP+BIND+Mail server because I did 
so on a lesser laptop last year.

And maybe it could run a lightweight desktop.  And it does appear the 
browser might be the short coming.

Keith



On 2023-10-12 05:53, Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> On 10/11/23 08:47, 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
> 
> As others have said, 4GB ram isn't really going to cut it as a daily 
> driver machine. 8GB is functionally the minimum in 2023. This is 
> under-spec'd even compared to my basic no-thrills Lenovo Thinkpad that 
> I bought in 2018.
> 
> -Matt
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