[SWLUG] Re: More on Laptops

[Justin Mitchell]

On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 15:01, Secret Agent Rhys Sage wrote:
>  There was another laptop for
> $499 which was a big clunky thing the same size as my
> old 760. It had 96mb of memory and XP home seemed to
> be plodding along on it. 

dont forget to budget for fitting a decent amount of ram in it, sodimms
arent that cheap and memory hog programs like openoffice or mozilla
running on a straight out-of-the-box gnome or kde is going to make a
snail look like a land speed record holder in that small an amount of
ram.

it is of course possible to trim things down with a little care and get
a bareable speed, but lets be honest, your just not the type to do that
are you. Look to get at least 256mb.