[plug] [OT] Acer Lappy

[Chris Caston]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 20:27, Phillip wrote:
> Yep, needs more memory, bigger hdd, Linux...
> 
> Mates laptop cost around 2.5K, and has 1GB ram, A64 CPU, 60gig hdd,
> ati graphics chip, 1024x768x24bpp display, same for the rest... Runs
> very nice, albeit the video performance is a little slow. He actually
> uses it at lans instead of his main pc!

I'd imagine the problem with the Walmart laptop would be that part of
the 256mb RAM would be shared with the on board video. The hd would
probably be 4400rpm giving you extremely slow swap partition access.

However I'm sure with a Debian install and a minimalist window manager
and desktop environment like XFce or Fluxbox (perhaps even KDE 3.4 if
you trim it down a bit) it wouldn't be so bad. 

I agree, however, that you could easily spend $200-300 extra to get a
decent mobile Athlon, 5400rpm hd and 512mb ram.
> 
> On 5/24/05, Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:10, Senectus . wrote:
> > > To add to that it concerns me that the only useful looking data I can
> > > find on the specific model is in Russian or German.. 0.o
> > >
> > 
> > >From the "German" (or is that Denmark?) page:
> > 
> > Acer TravelMate 2355XC (Win XP Home)
> > 
> > Intel(r) Celeron(r) M 360 processor 1.4GHz 1MB, Microsoft(r) Windows(r) XP Home
> > SP2, 14,1" XGA TFT skærm, 256MB DDR333, 40GB HDD, DVD/CDRW, 10/100 LAN
> > 
> > 
> > 
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